BIRTHDAYS:
1800, Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850 - 1853)

1948, Kenny Loggins, singer

1957, Katie Couric, broadcast journalist

1964, Nicholas Cage, actor

1966, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.


EVENTS:
1610, Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.

1714, The typewriter is patented (it was built years later)

1785, First balloon flight across the English Channel.

1896, Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.

1929, "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.

1948, First ant farm is sold in the United States.

1963, First Class postage is raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.

1968, First Class postage is raised again from 5 cents to 6 cents.

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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