Famous people with your birthday
* Dakota Fanning, child actress
* Peter Fonda, actor
* W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights leader
This day in history
* 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
* 1874 - Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike," now more commonly called lawn tennis.
* 1883 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
* 1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.
* 1905 - Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club.
* 1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
* 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Brunei - National Day.
* Guyana - Mashramani-Republic Day.
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Choose cloth over paper.