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December 31 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-31T18:14:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Anthony Hopkins, actor
* Donna Summer, singer
* Gong Li, actress
* Henri Matisse, painter
* John Denver, singer and songwriter
* Odetta, singer
* Val Kilmer, actor

This day in history
* 1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
* 1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
* 1891 - A new immigration depot was opened on Ellis Island, New York.
* 1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
* 1983 - The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
* 1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.

Holidays and interesting facts
* New Year's Eve on the Gregorian Calendar.

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* Host a socially-responsible celebration.

December 30 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-30T18:23:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Asa Griggs Candler, businessman and politician
* Bo Diddley, singer and musician
* Henry Cho, comedian
* Jake Cuenca, actor and commercial model
* Laila Ali, boxer
* LeBron James, basketball player
* Matt Lauer, newscaster
* Meredith Vieira, television journalist
* Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel laureate
* Sandy Koufax, baseball player
* Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress
* Tiger Woods, golfer
* Tracey Ullman, actress and singer

This day in history
* 1953 - The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
* 1993 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
* 2005 - Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Philippines - Rizal Day

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* Vacation with a purpose.

December 29 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-29T18:33:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Devon White, baseball player
* Francisco Bustamante, billiard player
* Jon Voight, actor
* Jude Law, actor
* Mary Tyler Moore, actress
* Ted Danson, actor

This day in history
* 1851 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
* 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

Holidays and interesting facts
* The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity.

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* Designate a sober driver and keep your celebrations safe for everyone.

December 28 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-28T18:42:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Denzel Washington, actor
* Earl Hines, musician
* James Blake, tennis player
* John Legend, musician
* John Molson, brewer
* Kary Mullis, chemist, Nobel laureate
* Lomana LuaLua, footballer
* Nichelle Nichols, actress and singer
* Shen Congwen, writer

This day in history
* 1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
* 1835 - Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
* 1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
* 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Proclamation Day in South Australia

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* Make a charitable donation when you search the web.

December 27 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-27T07:04:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Johannes Kepler, astronomer
* Louis Pasteur, scientist
* Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer
* Salman Khan, actor
* Theresa Randle, actress

This day in history
* 1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
* 1845 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
* 1932 - The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
* 1945 - The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
* 1949 - Indonesian National Revolution. The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence.

Holidays and interesting facts
* St. Stephen's Day among Orthodox Churches

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* Support science-based development initiatives

December 26 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
* Jean Toomer, American writer
* Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician

This day in history
* 1606 - First Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear
* 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
* Jack Johnson becomes the heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
* 1931 - Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest existing Latino fraternity is founded.
* 1933 - FM radio is patented.
* 1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
Holidays and interesting facts
* South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday
* First day of Kwanzaa
* The first of the twelve days of Christmas in Western Christianity.
* First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas

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* Celebrate Kwanzaa, everyone can.

December 25 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-25T18:58:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Annie Lennox, Scottish singer, from Aberdeen
* Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate
* Cab Calloway, American bandleader
* Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author
* Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
* Dido, English singer
* Nagma, Indian actress
* Rod Serling, American television writer

This day in history
* 1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
* 1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
* 1971 - In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s of game time), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City Municipal Stadium 27-24.
* 1990 - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Christmas Day
* Yule

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Redefine the holidays, give to others.

December 1 - Happy Birthday!

2008-12-01T19:36:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bette Midler, American actress
* Lee Trevino, American golfer

* Lou Rawls, American singer
* Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures
* Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian
* Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
* Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian

This day in history
* 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
* 1860 - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
* 1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
* 1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
* 1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
* 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
* 1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
* 1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
* 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
* 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his sixth solo album Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time.
Holidays and interesting facts
* World AIDS Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Stop AIDS.

November 18 - Happy Birthday!

2008-11-18T13:43:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Compay Segundo, musician
* Delroy Lindo, actor
* Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer
* Johnny Mercer, lyricist
* Kevin Nealon, comedian and actor
* Mickey Mouse, cartoon mouse
* Mona Zaki, Actress

This day in history
* 1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off of his son's head.
* 1803 - The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
* 1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
* 1993 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Latvia - Independence Day
* United Nations World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

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* Keep pedestrians save - drive gently.

November 11 - Happy Birthday!

2008-11-11T12:07:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Demi Moore, American actress
* Calista Flockhart, actress
* Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist
* Kurt Vonnegut, novelist
* Leonardo DiCaprio, actor

This day in history
* 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
* 1918 - World War I ends. Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
* 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Twins Day in Taiwan
* Independence Day in Angola and Poland

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Support aeterans in your community.

October 31 - Happy birthday!

2008-10-31T19:19:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician
* Ethel Waters, American singer and actress
* John Keats, British poet
* Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts
* Vanilla Ice, American rapper
This day in history
* 445 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem
* 1517 - Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
* 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
* 1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Halloween

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* Trick-or-treat for good.

October 20 - Happy birthday!

2008-10-20T19:36:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Art Buchwald, humorist
* Bab, founder of the Bahai Faith
* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, biologist
* Jelly Roll Morton, composer
* Jerry Orbach, actor
* Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya
* Keith Hernandez, baseball player
* Mickey Mantle, baseball player
* Snoop Dogg, rapper
* Tom Petty, musician

This day in history
* 1803 - The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
* 1952 - A state of emergency declared in Kenya and hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, arrested.
* 1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Feast day of martyr Andrew of Crete
* Bahá'í Holy Day - Birth of the Báb

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Think about your music choices as you take back the music.

October 18 - Happy birthday!

2008-10-18T18:58:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Carly Schroeder, actress
* Chuck Berry, singer
* Dawn Wells, actress
* Erin Moran, actress
* Freja Beha Erichsen, model
* George C Scott, actor
* Isabel Briggs Myers, psychologist
* Jean Claude Van Damme, actor
* Laura Nyro, singer
* Martina Navratilova, tennis player
* Mike Ditka, football player
* Ne-Yo, singer
* Ntozake Shange, writer
* Pam Dawber, actress
* Peter Boyle, actor
* Pius II, Pope
* Terry McMillan, writer
* Tyler Posey, actor
* Wendy Wasserstein, writer
* Wynton Marsalis, musician
* Zac Efron, actor

This day in history
* 1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first US labor organization
* 1775 - Poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery
* 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million
* 1892 - The First long distance phone call in the United States between Chicago and New York.
* 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico
* 1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State
* 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee
* 1922 - The BBC is founded
* 1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
* 1954 - Texas Instruments reveals the first Transistor radio

Holidays and interesting facts
* Alaska Day
* Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist

Make the day meaningful Brought to you by So what can I do?
* Remember Phillis Wheatley and help free others from slavery.
* Honor Canadian women by cherishing all women.
* Support unions like the Boston Shoemakers and choose union-made goods.

September 9 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer
* Hugh Grant, English actor
* Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, bookmaker and sports commentator
* Leo Tolstoy, novelist
* Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter
* Robert Wood Johnson III, philanthropist

This day in history
* 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
* 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
* 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
* 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
* 2007 - Wikipedia's 2,000,000th article in the English language version.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Japan - Chrysanthemum Day
* Tajikistan - Independence Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Adopt a minefield and help save lives.

September 8 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam
* Asha Bhonsle, singer
* David Arquette, actor
* Guitar Shorty, guitarist
* Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
* Kimberlea Berg, actress
* Krystal Reyes, actress
* Larenz Tate, Actor
* Patsy Cline, singer
* Peter Sellers, actor
* Pink, singer
* Sam Nunn, politician
* Sid Caesar, comedian

This day in history
* 70 - Titus, General of Rome, destroys Jerusalem.
* 1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
* 1921 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
* 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
* 1962 - Newly independent, Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.
* 1986 - American nationally syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show is launched.
* 2001 - Durban, South Africa hosts the World Conference against Racism.
Holidays and interesting facts
* International Literacy Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Celebrate International Literacy Day by promoting literacy. Happy reading and happy birthday!

September 7 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Buddy Holly, American singer
* Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer
* Eazy-E, American rapper
* Gloria Gaynor, American singer
* Julie Kavner, American actress
* Little Milton, American musician
* Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player
* Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist

This day in history
* 1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo.
* 1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
* 1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
* 1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
* 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
* 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
* 1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

Holidays and interesting facts
* Brazil - Independence day
* Mozambique - Victory Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Turn off the TV in anticipation of April's TV Turnoff Week.

September 6 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alice Sebold, American novelist
* Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
* CeCe Peniston, dance music singer
* Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
* Henry Muhlenberg, founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church
* Idris Elba, actor
* Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
* Jimmy Reed, blues singer
* Joseph Yobo, footballer
* Justina Machado, actress
* Roger Waters, musician
* Samuel Peter, heavyweight boxer
* Susumu Tonegawa, molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Swoosie Kurtz, actress
This day in history
* 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
* 1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
* 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Bulgaria – Unification Day.
* Stillbirth Remembrance Day in honor of Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Learn words, give rice, and improve your English vocabulary.

September 5 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bob Newhart, actor and comedian
* Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist
* Frank Yerby, novelist
* Freddie Mercury, singer and songwriter
* George Boateng, footballer
* Jesse James, outlaw
* John Cage, American composer
* Michael Keaton, American actor

This day in history
* 1661 - Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
* 1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
* 1960 - The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.

Holidays and interesting facts
* India - The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Each one teach one, celebrate a teacher.

September 4 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-04T09:01:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Beyoncé Knowles, singer
* Carmit Bachar, musician
* Damon Wayans, actor and comedian
* Katreeya English, singer, actress, model
* Khandi Alexander, actress
* Nona Gaye, singer and actress
* Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster
* Richard Wright, writer

This day in history
* 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
* 1886 - After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
* 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
* 1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
* 1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY.
* 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
* 1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 was introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Aaron and Moses Day in the Maronite Church

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Donate blood, organs or cord blood and make yourself useful.

September 3 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Kaori Natori, singer and model
* Mort Walker, cartoonist
* Steve Jones, musician

This day in history
* 1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
* 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
* 1971 - Qatar becomes an independent state from Great Britain
* 1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
* 1995 - eBay founded.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Qatar Independence Day
* Taiwan/Republic of China - Armed Forces Day.
* Australia - Flag Day.
* Tunisia - Memorial Day

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* Shop or sell at eBay to raise money for your favorite charity.

September 2 - Happy Birthday

2008-09-02T09:04:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Billy Preston, musician
* Clifford Jordan, jazz saxophonist
* Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
* Horace Silver, jazz pianist and composer
* Keanu Reeves, actor
* Lennox Lewis, boxer
* Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii
* Mandy Cho, actress
* Meinhardt Raabe, actor
* Salma Hayek, actress

This day in history
* 490 BC - After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles in 2 days and nights, a messenger ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious."
* 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
* 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
* 1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
* 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
* 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
* 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
* 2005 - The Natural Bridge, a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Learn words, give rice, and improve your English vocabulary.

September 1 - Happy Birthday!

2008-09-01T09:02:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ann W. Richards, politician
* Auguste-Henri Forel, entomologist
* Barry Gibb, singer
* Bianca Ryan, singer
* Billy Blanks, martial artist
* Boxcar Willie, country musician (d. 1999)
* Conway Twitty, singer
* Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
* Gloria Estefan, singer
* Ilona Mitrecey, singer
* Juliana Lohmann, actress
* Lââm, singer
* Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian
* Phil McGraw, talk show host
* Rocky Marciano, boxer

This day in history
* 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
* 1859 - A solar superstorm effects electrical telegraph service.
* 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
* 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
* 1902 - A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
* 1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
* 2006 - Luxembourg became to first country to complete the move to all digital Television broadcasting.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise.
* Libya - Revolution Day
* New Zealand - National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day
* Russia - Knowledge Day.
* Singapore - Teachers' Day.
* Slovakia - Constitution Day.
* Uzbekistan - Independence Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Support sustainable development through random act of kindness.

August 8 - Happy Birthday!

2008-08-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Princess Beatrice of York
* Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary
* Esther Morris, first U. S. female judge
* JC Chasez, singer
This day in history
* 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
* 1949 - Bhutan becomes independent

Holidays and interesting facts
* Father's Day in Taiwan (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).

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* Be a father (or mother) by becoming a foster or adoptive parent.

July 28 - Happy Birthday!

2008-07-28T19:14:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader
* Beatrix Potter, author
* Delfeayo Marsalis, jazz musician
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States
* Sally Struthers, actress

This day in history
* 1786 - First potato arrives in Britain.
* 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
* 1994 - Pitcher Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers throws a perfect game against the California Angels in a 4-0 win at The Ballpark in Arlington.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Peru - Independence Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Eat healthy, local, sustainable foods.

July 27 - Happy Birthday!

2008-07-27T19:07:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author
* Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
* Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
* Takako Fuji, Japanese actress

This day in history
* 1866 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
* 1940 - The animated short "A Wild Hare" is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
* 1971 - Nabisco introduces the pop tart.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Puerto Rico - José Celso Barbosa Day.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Purchase fair trade goods.

July 13 - Happy Birthday!

2008-07-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Danni Boatwright, model and sports caster
* Gerald Levert, singer
* Jack Kemp, football player and politician
* Julius Caesar, military and political leader
* Patrick Stewart, actor
* Wole Soyinka, writer and Nobel laureate

This day in history
* 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
* 1908 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead in East Japan

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Ensure that everyone has access to sports, regardless of gender or physical ability.

June 19 - Happy Birthday!

2008-06-19T07:53:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Aage Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel laureate
* Lou Gehrig, baseball player
* Kathleen Turner, actress
* Paula Abdul, singer and choreographer
* Poppy Montgomery, actress
* Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun

This day in history
* 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
* 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
* 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
* 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
* 1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
* Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Juneteenth – celebrates the legal end of slavery in the US.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Juneteenth wasn't the real end of slavery, so take steps to end slavery and human trafficking.

May 4 - Happy Birthday!

2008-05-04T07:39:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Audrey Hepburn, actress
* Eric Djemba-Djemba, footballer
* Horace Mann, educator
* Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, Persian Sufi
* Lance Bass, singer
* Oleta Adams, singer
* Randy Travis, musician
* Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist
* Trisha Krishnan, actress
* Tyrone Davis, singer

This day in history
* 1686 - Municipality of Ilagan was founded in the Philippines.
* 1871 - The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
* 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
* 1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
* 1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
* 1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
* 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Holidays and interesting facts
* International Firefighters' Day.
* International Star Wars Day.

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* Consider becoming as volunteer firefighter or support the firefighters in your community.

April 22 - Happy Birthday!

2008-04-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Aaron Spelling, television producer
* Charles Mingus, musician
* Immanuel Kant, philosopher
* Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder
* Paul Chambers, jazz bassist
* Robert Oppenheimer, physicist

This day in history
* 1889 - At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
* 1946 - The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
* 1970 - First Earth Day celebrated.
* 1993 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Earth Day

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* Celebrate Earth Day and treasure our earth.

April 15 - Happy Birthday!

2008-04-15T19:28:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* A. Philip Randolph, activist
* Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman
* Bessie Smith, blues singer
* Heloise, newspaper columnist
* Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath
* Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, footballer
* Sharlene san Pedro, actress

This day in history
* 1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
* 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
* 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team
* 1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Holidays and interesting facts
* US Federal Income Tax Day

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* Make microloans and get your money back.

April 1 - Happy Birthday!

2008-04-01T07:24:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Annette O'Toole, actress
* Bijou Phillips, actress
* Gil Scott-Heron, musician and composer
* Go-Saga, Emperor of Japan
* Method Man, rapper
* Samuel R. Delany, author
* Sophie Germain, mathematician
* Sung Hi Lee, model
* Wangari Maathai, environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

This day in history
* 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
* 1868 - Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton, Virginia.
* 1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
* 1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
* 1948 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
* 1949 - The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
* 1963 - The Soap Opera General Hospital debuted
* 1976 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
* 1979 - Nickelodeon (TV Channel) starts
* 2001 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
Holidays and interesting facts
* April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.
* Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus in the Roman Empire.

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* Fuel your vehicle's engine with E85 or biodeisel.

March 25 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-25T11:00:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Aretha Franklin, singer
* Béla Bartók, composer
* Cha Tae-hyun, actor and singer
* Danica Patrick, race car driver
* Debi Thomas, figure skater
* Ed Begley, actor
* Eileen Ford, model agency executive
* Elton John, singer and songwriter
* Flannery O'Connor, author
* Gloria Steinem, feminist and publisher
* Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, actress
* Juvenile, rapper
* Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
* Sheryl Swoops, basketball player
* Toni Cade Bambara, author

This day in history
* 1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
* 1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Greek Independence Day
* Freedom Day in Belarus
* International Waffle Day in Sweden
* Mother's Day in Slovenia

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* Follow Mohandas Ghandi's advice and "Be the change you want to see in the world"

March 19 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-19T11:23:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Billy Sheehan, American musician
* Glenn Close, American actress
* Moms Mabley, American comedian
* Ruth Pointer, American singer
* Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter

This day in history
* 1831 - The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
* 1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
* 1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Plant a row for the hungry.

March 18 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-18T11:23:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
* Charley Pride, American musician
* Dana Owens (Queen Latifah), American singer and actress
* Ernest Gallo, American winemaker
* Irene Cara, American actress and singer
* John Updike, American author
* Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
* Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
* Wilson Pickett, American singe

This day in history
* 1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
* 1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
* 2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
* 2005 - The first-ever Muslim Friday prayer led by a woman in a mixed-gender congregation is held in New York City, marking a break with a 1426-year Islamic tradition.

Holidays and Interesting Facts
* National Biodiesel Day - United States
* Mothers Day - Nigeria

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Choose biodiesel or other alternative fuels.

March 17 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-17T11:22:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bobby Jones, American golfer
* Cynthia McKinney, American politician
* Dana Reeve, American actress and activist
* Elis Regina, Brazilian singer
* Gary Sinise, American actor
* Kurt Russell, American actor
* Mia Hamm, American soccer player
* Nat King Cole, American singer
* Patrick Duffy, American actor
* Rob Lowe, American actor
* Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh

This day in history
* 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
* 1845 - The rubber band is patented.
* 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
* 1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
* 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

Holidays and interesting facts
* St. Patrick's Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Say no to plastic bags.

March 16 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Chuck Woolery, American game show host
* Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
* Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
* Jerry Lewis, American comedian
* Sierra McClain, American actress and singer
* Ursula Goodenough, Cell Biologist

This day in history
* 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
* 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
* 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.

Holidays and interesting facts
* The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Wage peace.

March 15 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-15T12:07:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
* Eva Longoria, American actress
* Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
* Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
* Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia
* Judd Hirsch, American actor
* Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician
* Mark Hoppus, American musician
* Paul Zindel, American author, playwright, and educator
* Ry Cooder, American guitarist
* Sly Stone, American musician
* Will.i.am, American musician

This day in history
* 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
* 1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
* 1919 - The American Legion forms in Paris.
* 1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
* 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1870 mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
* 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
* 1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.

This day in history
* International Day Against Police Brutality

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Play video games.

March 14 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
* Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist
* Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
* Love, Angolan footballer
* Lee Petty, American race car driver
* Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
* Rick Dees, American disc jockey
* S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
* Taylor Hanson, American musician

This day in history
* 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
* 1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

Holidays and Interesting Facts
* Pi Day, a "celebration" of the irrational number pi which roughly equals 3.14159.
* Japan and Korea - White Day, holiday similar to Valentine's Day in which men give gifts to women.

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* Be an energy star.

March 13 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
* Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology
* Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
* Common, American rapper

This day in history
* 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard
* 1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
* 1925 - Scopes Trial - A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
* 1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Donate your gently used furniture.

March 12 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Al Jarreau, American singer
* Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician
* Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun
* Charles Boycott, British land agent and originator of the term to boycott
* Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer
* Courtney B. Vance, American actor
* Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
* Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
* Jack Kerouac, American writer
* James Taylor, American musician
* Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
* Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician
* Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
* U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
* William Thomas, Jr., Actor

This day in history
* 1881 - Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
* 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
* 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the U.S..
* 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.
* 1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Arbor Day in People's Republic of China and Taiwan.
* Mauritius - National Day.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Use alternative fuels.

March 11 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bobby McFerrin, American singer
* Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author
* Lawrence Welk, American musician
* Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader
* Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur
* Sam Donaldson, American reporter
* Terrence Howard, American actor

This day in history
* 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies
* 1845 - British citizen Henry Jones invents self-rising flour.
* 1959 - The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
* 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
* 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
* 2006 - Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

This day in history
* United States - Johnny Appleseed Day.
* Zambia - Youth Day.
* Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Eat local.

March 10 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
* Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
* Jasmine Guy, American actress
* Sharon Stone, American actress
* Timbaland, American rapper
* Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer

This day in history
* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
* 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
* 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Read out loud.

March 9 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-09T12:01:00.000-07:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer
* Bobby Fischer, American chess player
* Charles Gibson, American television journalist
* Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
* Ernesto Miranda, American litigant
* Faith Daniels, American journalist
* Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
* Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist and composer
* Shad Gregory Moss, rapper and actor

This day in history
* 1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
* 1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
* 1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
* 2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* End slavery.

March 8 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-08T12:01:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Boris Kodjoe, model and actor
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
* Mississippi John Hurt, blues singer and guitarist
* Shawn Mullins, musician

This day in history
* 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
* 1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
* 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
* 1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union

Holidays and interesting facts
* Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and others - Mother's Day.
* International Women's Day (United Nations)

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Cherish a woman.

March 7 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-07T09:14:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Antoine César Becquerel, physicist
* David Baltimore, molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
* Denyce Graves, opera singer
* Ernie Isley, musician
* Gerald Anderson, actor and model
* Janet Guthrie, race car driver
* Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
* Rene Gagnon, US Marine shown in photograph of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima
* Tammy Faye Bakker, televangelist

This day in history
* 321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).
* 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
* 1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
* 2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Teacher's Day in Albania

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Write and share your ethical will.

March 6 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-06T09:15:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alan Greenspan, American economist
* Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier and poet
* D.L. Hughley, comedian and actor
* Ed McMahon, television personality
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
* Furry Lewis, blues guitarist
* Gabriel García Márquez, writer and Nobel Laureate
* Lou Costello, American actor comedian
* Michelangelo, artist
* Momoko Tsugunaga, singer
* Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
* Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player
* Tom Arnold, actor and comedian

This day in history
* 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar.
* 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
* 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
* 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
* 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
* 1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah".
* 1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Ghana - Independence Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Respect workers and their work.

March 5 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-05T09:16:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Andy Gibb, singer and teen idol
* Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe
* Gerardus Mercator, cartographer
* John Frusciante, American musician
* Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria

This day in history
* 1770 - Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks and a young boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
* 1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Stop making excuses, start making a difference..

March 4 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-04T10:27:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Antonio Vivaldi, composer
* Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., businessman
* Carol Banawa, singer and celebrity
* Emilio Estefan, percussionist
* Garrett Morgan, inventor
* Haile Gerima, filmmaker
* Khaled Hosseini, author and physician
* Knute Rockne, football player and coach
* Jason Marsalis, musician
* Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon
* Miriam Makeba, singer
* Omar Bravo, footballer
* Patricia Heaton, actress
* Ray Mancini, boxer

This day in history
* 1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
* 1929 - Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.
* 1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
* 1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
Holidays and interesting facts
* 1998 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex in the case Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services.

Holidays and interesting facts
* The only day which is also a command (in spoken English) - "March forth!"

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Promote tolerance of others.

March 3 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-03T10:47:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor
* Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase
* Cyril Burt, educational psychologist
* Herschel Walker, American football player
* Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
* John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player
* Tone Lōc, American rapper and actor
* Perry Ellis, fashion designer
This day in history
* 1791 - The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress.
* 1845 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
* 1865 - The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
* 1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
* 1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State.
* 1910 - J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
* 1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
* 1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
* 1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
* 1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
* 2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Hinamatsuri - Japanese celebration day for girls.
* Bulgaria - Liberation Day.
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Donate to charity through a charitable mutual fund.

March 2 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-02T10:46:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
* Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor and bandleader
* Dr. Seuss, American author
* Eddie Money, American singer
* Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist
* Jon Bon Jovi, American musician
* Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter
* Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress
* Tom Wolfe, American author

This day in history
* 1799 - Congress standardizes US weights and measures
* 1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
* 1933 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
* 1949 - The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Conn..
* 1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
* 1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
* 2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Texas Independence Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Send a net, save a life.

March 1 - Happy Birthday!

2008-03-01T10:44:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
* Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician
* Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
* Glenn Miller, American bandleader
* Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist
* Naima Mora, American model
* Ralph Ellison, American writer
* Ron Howard, American actor and director
* Steven Barnes, American writer
* Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher

This day in history
* 1565 - The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
* 1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in the USA.
* 1692 - Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
* 1790 - The first United States census is authorized.
* 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
* 1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
* 1896 - Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
* 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
* 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
* 1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the US
* 1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on television
* 1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
* 1983 - Swatch introduces its first timepieces.
* 1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Bosnia and Herzegovina - Independence Day
* Iceland - Beer day - This day in 1989 beer was allowed again
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So What Can I Do?)
* Support microenterprise.

February 29 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-29T13:57:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ann Lee, founder of Shakers
* Dee Brown, writer
* Dinah Shore, singer
* Ja Rule, rapper and actor
* Saul Williams, rapper, poet, and actor

This day in history
* 1940 - For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
* 1972 - Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
* 1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town

Holidays and interesting facts
* Leap day - occurs in years divisible by 4 except for century years not divisible by 400 (like 2100)

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Send a net, save a life.

February 28 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-28T06:17:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
* Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect
* John Turturro, American actor
* Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel laureate
* Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
* Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress
* Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate
* Tommy Tune, American dancer

This day in history
* 1784 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
* 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
* 1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
* 1983 - The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S.
Holidays and interesting facts

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Build a home with Habitat for Humanity.

February 27 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-27T06:18:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Adam Baldwin, American actor
* Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
* Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
* Constantine I, Roman emperor
* Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist
* Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
* Joanne Woodward, American actress
* John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate
* Josh Groban, American singer
* Lynn Cartwright, American actress
* Peter De Vries, American writer
* Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
* Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer

This day in history
* 1879 - Announcement of the discovery of artificial sweetener saccharin.
* 1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
* 1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Dominican Republic - National Day.

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* Participate in research to advance medical and scientific knowledge.

February 26 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-26T13:29:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ahmed H. Zewail, chemist, Nobel laureate
* Erykah Badu, singer
* Fats Domino, musician
* Jackie Gleason, actor, writer, composer, and comedian
* Johnny Cash, singer
* Lee Atwater, political operative
* Leela Majumdar, writer
* Levi Strauss, clothing designer
* Michael Bolton, singer
* Song Hye Kyo, model and actress
* Victor Hugo, writer
* William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, pioneer, officer, and hunter

This day in history
* 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
* 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
* 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
* 2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Liberation Day in Kuwait

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* Recycle your old tennis shoes.

February 25 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-25T13:28:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Brenda Joyce, actress
* Carrot Top, comedian
* George Harrison, musician
* Julio José Iglesias, singer
* Meher Baba, spiritual leader
* Rashida Jones, actress, writer, model, and musician
* Sally Jessy Raphaël, talk show host
* Samson Kitur, athlete
* Téa Leoni, actress

This day in history
* 1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits Joice Heth, an enslaved African American woman.
* 1837 - First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport.
* 1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
* 1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
* 2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Kuwait's national day.
* People Power Day, Philippines.

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* Invest responsibly.

February 24 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-24T13:27:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Barry Bostwick, actor
* Edward James Olmos, actor
* Paula Zahn, journalist
* Steve Jobs, computer pioneer
* Wilhelm Grimm, philologist and folklorist

This day in history
* 1607 - L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, premieres.
* 1868 - The first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
* 1938 - A nylon-bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product (DuPont) to be made with nylon yarn.
* 1970 - National Public Radio is founded in the United States.
* 1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II
* 1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.

Holidays and interesting facts
* National Artist Day in Thailand.
* Flag Day in México.

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* Join Geekcorps to help others with their computer needs.

February 23 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-23T13:26:00.000-08:00

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.

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* Choose cloth over paper.

February 22 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-22T07:15:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Drew Barrymore, actress
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* Ishmael Reed, writer
* Jonathan Demme, film director

This day in history
* 1295 BCE - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
* 1853 - The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
* 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
* 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts
* 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
* 1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
* 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
* 1969 - The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
* 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

Holidays and interesting facts
* World Thinking Day for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

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* Donate to your college or support others' efforts to attend college

February 21 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-21T12:12:00.000-08:00

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

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* Use antibiotics responsibly.

February 20 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-20T12:11:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ansel Adams, American photographer
* Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
* Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club)
* Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite
* Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana)
* Patty Hearst, American socialite
* Sidney Poitier, American actor
* Rihanna, Barbadian singer

This day in history
* 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
* 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
* 1962 - While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.

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* Use your computer for good.

February 19 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-19T12:10:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Amy Tan, American novelist
* Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
* Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
* Karen Silkwood, American activist
* Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer
* Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
* Seal, English singer
* Smokey Robinson, American singer
* Socrates, Brazilian footballer

This day in history
* 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
* 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
* 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
* 2006 - The Rolling Stones made the largest show open to the public of the world in Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1.3 million people went to the show.

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* Click to donate and make a difference.

February 18 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga
* Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran, changed nationality 5 times
* Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
* Cybill Shepherd, American actress
* Dr. Dre, American rapper
* Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver
* Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
* Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet
* John Travolta, American actor
* Johnny Hart, American cartoonist
* Matt Dillon, American actor
* Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate
* Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord
* Vanna White, American game show presenter
* Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer

This day in history
* 1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
* 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
* 1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
* 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
* 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
* 1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
* 1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
* 2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

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* Put people first regardless of (dis)ability.

February 17 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-17T13:16:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder
* Chanté Moore, American singer
* Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor
* Huey P. Newton, American political activist
* Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
* Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
* Michael Jordan, American basketball player
* Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
* Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist
This day in history
* 1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
* 1801 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
* 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
* 1904 - Madama Butterfly premiers at La Scala in Milan.
* 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
* 1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.
* 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

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* Be an EnergyStar.

February 16 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-16T13:17:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist
* Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist
* Ice-T, American rapper, songwriter, and actor
* Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter
* LeVar Burton, American actor
* Nichiren Daishonin, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism
* Sonny Bono, American entertainer & U.S. Congressman
* Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher

This day in history
* 1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC, becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
* 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
* 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
* 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
* 2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Lithuania - Independence Day (1918)
* Kyoto Protocol Day (2005)

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* Support innocence projects.

February 15 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-15T13:17:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
* Cesar Romero, American actor
* Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
* John Barrymore, American actor
* Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
* Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
* Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian, thinker and writer
* Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist

This day in history
* 399 BC - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death.
* 1764 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri established.
* 1879 - Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
* 1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
* 2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world.
* 2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Flag Day in Canada
* National Day in Serbia
Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Think global, eat local.

February 14 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-14T09:53:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Donna Shalala, educator
* Florence Henderson, actress
* Gregory Hines, dancer and actor
* Jack Benny, actor and comedian
* Jimmy Hoffa, labor union lead
* Karima Adebibe, actress and model
* Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
* Teller, magician

This day in history
* 1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
* 1886 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
* 1899 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
* 2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Valentine's day

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* Be a fair-trade valentine.

February 13 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-13T10:25:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Chuck Yeager, test pilot, and the first person to break the "sound barrier" in level flight
* Eddie Robinson, football coach
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner
* George Segal, actor
* Kelly Hu, actress
* Peter Gabriel, musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian
* Rebop Kwaku Baah, percussionist
* Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician
* Thomas Robert Malthus, Demographer and Political Economist

This day in history
* 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
* 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
* 1635 - The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded.
* 1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri
* 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
* 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

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* Donate your jewelry for recycling.

February 12 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-12T10:23:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
* Arsenio Hall, actor and talk show host
* Charles Darwin, naturalist
* Christina Ricci, actress
* Chynna Phillips, singer
* Ed Lover, radio personality
* Jennifer Stone, actress
* Joe Garagiola, baseball player and announcer
* Josh Brolin, actor
* Judy Blume, author
* Kujo Yoritsune, shogun
* Onil Joseph, baseball player

This day in history
* 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
* 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
* 1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Darwin Day
* Red Hand Day

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* Recycle rechargeable batteries to protect the environment and reduce waste.

February 11 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-11T10:22:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Brandy, singer and actress
* Burt Reynolds, actor
* Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general
* Eva Gabor, actress
* Kelly Rowland, singer
* Max Baer, boxer and actor
* Sheryl Crow, musician
* Sidney Sheldon, author
* Thomas Alva Edison, inventor

This day in history
* 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
* 1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
* 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
* 1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
* 2006 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face while the two are hunting together.

Holidays and interesting facts
* National Youth Day in Cameroon.
* National Inventors' Day in the United States.
* National Foundation Day in Japan

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* Use cloth napkins.

February 10 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-10T10:21:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate
* George Stephanopoulos, political commentator
* Kim Hyo-jin, actress
* Leontyne Price, soprano
* Robert Wagner, actor
* Roberta Flack, singer

This day in history
* 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
* 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
* 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
* 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
* 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
* 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

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* Donate your furniture when you replace it.

February 9 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-09T10:19:00.000-08:00

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

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* Choose recycled products.

February 8 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-08T10:18:00.000-08:00

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.

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* By carbon offsets.

February 7 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-07T10:16:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Ashton Kutcher, actor
* Charles Dickens, novelist
* Chris Rock, comedian and actor
* Earl King, musician
* Garth Brooks, singer
* Harry Nyquist, information theorist
* John Deere, manufacturer
* Juwan Howard, basketball player
* Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
* Sinclair Lewis, writer
* Teshome Getu, footballer

This day in history
* 1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
* 1964 - The Beatles arrive at JFK International Airport to begin their first tour of the United States.
* 1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
* 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, which will lead to the creation of the European Union.

Holidays and interesting facts
* International Men's Day in Malta.

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* Change the margins to save paper and money.

February 6 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-06T10:15:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Babe Ruth, baseball player
* Bob Marley, musician
* Fabian, singer
* Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland
* Kathy Najimy, actress and comedienne
* Natalie Cole, singer
* Rip Torn, actor
* Ronald Reagan, actor and 40th President of the United States
* Tom Brokaw, news anchorman
* Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress

This day in history
* 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
* 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
* 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

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* Try E85 or E10.

February 5 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-05T13:00:00.000-08:00

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.

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* Visit a charity mall.

February 4 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-04T12:59:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alice Cooper, musician
* Carly Patterson, gymnast
* Charles Lindbergh, pilot
* Johann Ludwig Bach, composer
* Oscar de la Hoya, boxer
* Rosa Parks, civil rights activist

This day in history
* 960 - The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
* 1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
* 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Independence Day in Sri Lanka
* World Cancer Day

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* Choose durable reusable water bottles.

February 3 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-03T12:57:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Emile Griffith, professional boxer
* Felix Mendelssohn, composer
* Gertrude Stein, writer
* Gaston Julia, mathematician
* Henry Heimlich, physician
* James Michener, author
* Norman Rockwell, illustrator
* Simone Weil, philosopher

This day in history
* 1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
* 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded, in Switzerland.
* 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race.
* 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
* 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Mozambique - Heroes' Day.

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* Invest with a purpose.

February 2 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-02T14:06:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights activist and author
* Ayn Rand, author and philosopher
* Brent Spiner, actor
* Christie Brinkley, model
* Farrah Fawcett, actress
* Howard Johnson, hotelier
* James Joyce, author
* Shakira, singer
* Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector and philanthropist
* Stan Getz, musician

This day in history
* 1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
* 1848 - The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
* 1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
* 1925 - Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Groundhog Day

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February 1 - Happy Birthday!

2008-02-01T14:09:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Big Boi, American musician
* Brandon Lee, American actor
* Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation
* Clark Gable, actor
* James P. Johnson, composer
* Joshua Redman, American musician
* Langston Hughes writer
* Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress
* Pauly Shore, American comedian
* Rick James, musician and composer
* Sherman Hemsley, comedian and actor

This day in history
* 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
* 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
* 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.
* 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
* 1960 - Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
* 2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.

Holidays and interesting facts
* The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom.
* The start of Black History Month in the United States.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Test yourself for hidden bias then consider how you can eliminate it.

January 19 - Happy Birthday!

2008-01-19T06:33:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Caron Wheeler, singer
* Desi Arnaz, Jr., actor
* Dolly Parton, singer and actress
* Edgar Allan Poe, writer and poet
* Janis Joplin, singer
* Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former United Nations Secretary General
* John H. Johnson, publisher
* Lysander Spooner, philosopher
* "Minnesota Fats", billiards player
* Paul Cézanne, painter
* Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general

This day in history
* 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
* 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
* 1935 - Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs.
* 1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
* 1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
* 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
* 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003.
* 1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer, Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

Holidays and interesting facts
* The Poe Toaster commemorates the death of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Baltimore.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* If you have an old Apple Lisa other unused electronic equipment, recycle it!

January 15 - Happy Birthday!

2008-01-15T20:14:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Charo, singer
* Creflo Dollar, televangelist
* Ernest J. Gaines, author
* Mario Van Peebles, actor
* Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights leader
* Molière, playwright
* Regina King, actress

This day in history
* 1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
* 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
* 1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is established.
* 1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
* 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
* 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

Holidays and interesting facts
* John Chilembwe Day in Malawi

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Take a day on for the King holiday and make a difference in your community.

September 10 - Happy Birthday!

2008-01-10T13:57:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief
* Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
* Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
* Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
* Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog actor
* Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol contestant
* Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer
* Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist

This day in history
* 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.
* 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
* 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
Holidays and interesting facts
* Gibraltar - National Day.
* Teacher's Day in China.

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Help Train service dogs.

August 8 - Happy Birthday!

2008-01-08T08:21:00.000-08:00

January 7 - Happy Birthday!

2008-01-07T06:50:00.000-08:00

Famous people with your birthday
* Bipasha Basu, model
* Butterfly McQueen, actress
* Doug E. Doug, actor
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet
* Joao Ricardo, footballer
* Katie Couric, television host
* Nicolas Cage, actor
* Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas
* Sadako Sasaki, victim of the atomic bomb when it was dropped on Hiroshima
* Zora Neale Hurston, writer

This day in history
* 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue
* 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
* 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
* 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Christmas Day in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches
* Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival) in Japan

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Wage peace and check out "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes""