A meme I am borrowing from a blogger named udge
Typed in my recent birthday sans the year into Wikipedia

Events on the day that are of interest:

1739- Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.
1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Other Birthdays

43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet
1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist

A few deaths

1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist
1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai

Holidays

The vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.
The second day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox.