BIRTHDAYS:
1956, Bo Derek, actress

1975, Dierks Bentley, country singer


EVENTS:
1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1967, U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.

1969, The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.

1974, The United States files an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.

1978, In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide.

"The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object."
- Simone Weil, French philosopher (1909-1943)