Almanac:
Birthdays
1858 F. Gerbaldi --1934
1869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
1883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
1907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
1936 Elizabeth Dole
1938 Peter Jennings
1949 Marilyn Quayle
1973 Wanya Morris
Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
1775 The U.S. Army Chaplaincy founded. Only the infantry branch is older is older.
1858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1914 1st transcontinental phone link. Between NYC and San Francisco.
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight: New York to San Francisco
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1974 First women priests in Episcopal Church ordained in Philadelphia.
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
That's all for today.