February 8 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist
* Gary Coleman, actor
* Jack Lemmon, actor and film director
* John Grisham, writer
* John Williams,composer and conductor
* Nick Nolte, actor
* Ted Koppel,journalist
* William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general

This day in history
* 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials.
* 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
* 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
* 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
* 1971 - The Nasdaq stock market index debuts.
* 1998 - First female ice hockey game in Olympic history: Finland beats Sweden 6-0.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* By carbon offsets.