Nothing else to do, so I wikipedia-d today’s date.

What I found out about this date was far from boring:

In history:

1867: First ship passes the Suez Canal
1895: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake was first performed.
1933: Newsweek first day of publishing
1933: Prohibition ends in the United States.
1959 : The first weather satellite was launched
1979: China Invades Vietnam

Some famous Celebrity’s born today:

Michael Jordan
Rene Russo
Paris Hilton
Denise Richards
Lou Diamond Phillips
Thomas Watson Sr. (IBM founder)