BIRTHDAYS:
1902, Ansel Adams, landscape photographer extraordinaire!

1927, Sidney Poitier, actor.

1963, Charles Barkley, Basketball player Houston Rockets Forward #4.

1966, Cindy Crawford, Supermodel.


EVENTS:
1673, First recorded wine auction held in London.

1873, University of California gets its first Med School (UC/SF).

1901, First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.

1902, Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.

1915, Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.

1931, Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.

1962, John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth.

1968, Peter Falk cracks his first case as "Lt. Columbo".

Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet. I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that I was walking down the street when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideons Bible out a hotel-room window, hitting me in the chest. The Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
- Woody Allen