BIRTHDAYS:
1779, Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, created pocket chessboard

1782, Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician

1813, Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially usable barbed wire

1854, Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell

1892, Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy

1904, Cary Grant, actor

1913, Danny Kaye, singer, actor, dancer

1955, Kevin Costner, actor

1967, Kim Perrot guard, houston Comets #10


EVENTS:
1644, First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.

1777, San Jose, CA is founded.

1778, Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.

1869, The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.

1911, First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).

1975, The original Morris The Cat dies. Finniky Pussy Cat!

"Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom."
- Bergen Evans, American lexicographer (1904-1978)