Roman orator, politician, and writer Cicero was born on this day in 106 BC
	J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) was born on this day in 1892
	Charles M. Schulz penned the last Peanuts strip on this day in 2000
	In 2003, today was J. R. R. Tolkien's 111th birthday. The beginning of The Lord of the Rings features character Bilbo Baggins' "eleventy-first" birthday celebration. At the peak of Tolkien's popularity (due to the Peter Jackson films), fans celebrated this day in greater numbers than ever before.
	On this day in 2010, cartoonist Mason Mastroianni finally added his name to the byline on his late grandfather Johnny Hart's comic strip B.C., which Mastroianni had been drawing since Hart's death in 2007.