February 9 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Alice Walker, writer
* Akinori Iwamura, baseball player
* Amy Lowell, poet
* Brian Greene, physicist
* Carmen Miranda, actress
* Carole King, singer
* Ernest Tubb, singer
* Jacques Monod, biochemist, Nobel laureate
* Joe Pesci, actor
* Judith Light, actress
* Kathryn Grayson, actress
* Mia Farrow, actress
* Roger Mudd, journalist
* Travis Tritt, singer
* Zhang Ziyi, actress

This day in history
* 1870 - The US Weather Bureau was established.
* 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
* 1895 - William G. Morgan invents volleyball.
* 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
* 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
* 1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.
* 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
* 1986 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the inner solar system in the 20th century.
* 1995 - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Choose recycled products.