Famous people with your birthday
* Bipasha Basu, model
* Butterfly McQueen, actress
* Doug E. Doug, actor
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet
* Joao Ricardo, footballer
* Katie Couric, television host
* Nicolas Cage, actor
* Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas
* Sadako Sasaki, victim of the atomic bomb when it was dropped on Hiroshima
* Zora Neale Hurston, writer
This day in history
* 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue
* 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
* 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
* 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Christmas Day in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches
* Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival) in Japan
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Wage peace and check out "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes""