BIRTHDAYS:
1824, Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University

1918, Mickey Spillane, author

1934, Yuri Gagarin, first person into space

1943, Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster

1964, Juliette Binoche, actress


EVENTS:
1822, US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.

1862, The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads. It was a standoff.

1959, The first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City.

1981, The Department of Agriculture, declares ketchup a vegetable.

1985, First-ever Adopt-a-Highway sign is erected on Texas’s Highway 69. The highway was adopted by the Tyler Civitan Club.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
- Lou Reed