BIRTHDAYS:
1830, Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...

1863, William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)

1899, Duke Ellington

1919, Celeste Holm

1947, Johnny Miller

1947, Jim Ryun

1954, Jerry Seinfeld, actor/comedian, "Seinfeld".

1957, Daniel Day-Lewis, actor.

1957, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress.

1962, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, Catwoman!

1970, Uma Thurman, model, actress.


EVENTS:
1553, A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen into England.

1857, Headquarters for the US Army division of the Pacific is permanently established at "The Presidio".

1913, The all-purpose zipper is patented.

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