Birthday News

On June 16, 1971, one of the most influential figures in rap music, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was born in East Harlem, New York.

Ohio pilot plans to fly his Cessna 172 airplane across the U.S.-Canadian border 90 times on his 90th birthday. He will start his journey in Buffalo, NY near the site of the closest call of his piloting career.

Twenty years ago, something happened at CERN: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". The following year, the World Wide Web was born. Now you can revisit the first website ever!

Cayden Bibeau, 2, got an Elmo-themed birthday cake, which was bought from a Walmart. However, the toddler found a knife in the cake.

A boy will turn 12 years old at exactly 12 minutes after 12 o'clock noon, EST, on December 12, 2012. Kiam Moriya was born in Bronxville, NY and currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama.

Vienna - Fritz Lang has captivated audiences around the globe since 1919. Today he would have been more than a century old and it would be an applicable time to look back at some of his best motion pictures that changed the filmmaking experience.

New York - In just a couple of days, Woody Allen, the Academy Award-winning director of such films as "Annie Hall" and Manhattan," will turn 77 years old. Although he is still going strong by writing and directing a film each year, let's look back at his top gems.

London - English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) is due to celebrate his thirtieth birthday on 27 November behind bars, on remand at Wandsworth Prison, London.

A man in China thought it would be fun to mail himself to his girlfriend for a birthday surprise. Trouble is the package got lost in transit and by the time she opened it up, it was almost too late, the guy had nearly suffocated.

If Amelia Earhart was still alive, she would turn 115-years-old today. Google is honoring the anniversary of her birth with a Google Doodle.