February 18 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga
* Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran, changed nationality 5 times
* Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
* Cybill Shepherd, American actress
* Dr. Dre, American rapper
* Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver
* Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
* Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet
* John Travolta, American actor
* Johnny Hart, American cartoonist
* Matt Dillon, American actor
* Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate
* Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord
* Vanna White, American game show presenter
* Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer

This day in history
* 1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
* 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
* 1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
* 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
* 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
* 1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
* 1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
* 2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Put people first regardless of (dis)ability.