February 13 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Chuck Yeager, test pilot, and the first person to break the "sound barrier" in level flight
* Eddie Robinson, football coach
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner
* George Segal, actor
* Kelly Hu, actress
* Peter Gabriel, musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian
* Rebop Kwaku Baah, percussionist
* Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician
* Thomas Robert Malthus, Demographer and Political Economist

This day in history
* 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
* 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
* 1635 - The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded.
* 1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri
* 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
* 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Donate your jewelry for recycling.