February 5, 2008

February 5 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate
* Bobby Brown, American singer
* Hank Aaron, American baseball player

This day in history
* 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
* 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
* 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
* 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.


Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Visit a charity mall.