Famous people with your birthday
* Anaïs Nin, French writer
* Barbara Jordan, American politician
* Charles Scribner, American publisher
* Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
* Erma Bombeck, American humorist
* Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
* Jeanne Calment, longest-lived human on record (1875-1997)
* Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
* John Lewis, American politician
* Nina Simone, American singer
* Tyne Daly, American actress
* W. H. Auden, English poet
This day in history
* 1804 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
* 1842 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
* 1878 - The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
* 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
* 1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
* 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
* 1952 - In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police opened fire on a procession of students, who demanded the establishment of Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan.
* 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 1958 - Peace symbol designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
Holidays and interesting facts
* International Mother Language Day
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Use antibiotics responsibly.