MILESTONES: December 20, birthdays for Jonah Hill, JoJo, Ashley Cole
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Emmy Award-winning actress Jenny Agutter, who was born in 1952; singer and activist Billy Bragg, who was born in 1957; author and poet Sandra Cisneros, who was born in 1954; soccer player Ashley Cole, who was born in 1980; singer and TV personality David Cook, who was born in 1982; psychic and clairvoyant Uri Geller, who was born in 1946; actor Jonah Hill, who was born in 1983; pop star JoJo, who was born in 1990; sociologist, educator and writer William Julius Wilson, who was born in 1935; and TV producer Dick Wolf, who was born in 1946.
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TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SOLIDARITY DAY. In connection with its observance of the first U.N. Decade for the Edification of Poverty, the U.N. General Assembly declared this date each year recalling that the Millennium Declaration identified solidarity as one of the fundamental and universal values that should underlie relations between peoples in the 21st century. For more information, visit un.org.