BIRTHDAYS:
1889, Arnold Toynbee, historian

1904, Sir John Gielgud, actor.

1935, Loretta Lynn, singer/songwriter, queen of country music.

1941, Pete Rose, baseball player.

1941, Julie Christie

1963, Cynthia Cooper guard for the Houston Comets, #14.

1977, Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress.


EVENTS:
1828, First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.

1860, First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.

1865, Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.

1902, J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.

1912, The British liner ``Titanic'' collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

1928, Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.

1939, The John Steinbeck novel ``The Grapes of Wrath'' was published.

1974, Dungeon's & Dragon's is invented.

Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra