About today's writing prompt genre: Take a fact or find a fact in the following database and do some research on it, then use it in some way in your piece. Be sure to use your Google-fu to flesh out the piece with some interesting information and so it doesn't come off as too 'one note' or surface level.
Today's fact is...
Use this database of disasters and tragedies and find one that occurred on your birthday. If you can't find one for your exact birthday, try to find one within a few days. Whether you use the fact of your later (or earlier) birth in the piece is completely up to you, this could just be the way you find your topic/event for today's bit writing. Just be sure to be respectful of the dead, or be ready to been seen as a jerk using tragedy for your own benefit.