Oh, the humanity!

May 6 is a big day in history: it's the birthdate of Tony Blair (1953), Willie Mays (1931), Orson Welles (1915), Sigmund Freud (1856), and the prepaid postage stamp (1840, in Great Britain). It's also the day American forces on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the day Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile (1954), and the day the Hindenburg exploded in New Jersey (1937), thus proving once and for all that letting the Nazis fly hydrogen-filled balloons over the Atlantic was a bad idea.

With some many human accomplishments on this day, it's almost justified to take a day off at work, right?