BIRTHDAYS:
1782, Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837 - 1841)

1901, Walt Disney

1932, Richard Wayne 'Little Richard' Penniman, singer


EVENTS:
1848, President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ''49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.

1932, German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.

1933, The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.

1955, A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.

From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
O God of Truth, deliver us.
- Unknown