Fact of the Day

About 20% of the world's tech founders are immigrants, even though immigrants only make up about 4 percent of the world's population.

Today in History

1830 Trail of Tears US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Today's Birthdays

1779 Thomas Moore

1957 Ben Howland

1892 Minna Gombell