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February 15, 2008

February 15 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
* Cesar Romero, American actor
* Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
* John Barrymore, American actor
* Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
* Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
* Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian, thinker and writer
* Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist

This day in history
* 399 BC - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death.
* 1764 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri established.
* 1879 - Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
* 1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
* 2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world.
* 2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Flag Day in Canada
* National Day in Serbia
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Think global, eat local.