"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." Check out today's Birthdays.

Born: July 18, 1918
He's much of his life fighting apartheid, the racist system used by the former white government of South Africa to suppress the majority black population.

Born: July 18, 1921
He served 24 years in the U.S. Senate but is best known as the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 and the oldest person to ever fly in space in 1998.