| Interesting Fact |
- The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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| Popular Quotes |
- All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
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| People Born Today |
- Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet
- Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind
- Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune
- Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min
- Dorothy Gish, silent film Actress (Orphans of the Storm)
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