| Interesting Fact |
- King George I could not speak English!
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| Popular Quotes |
- Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
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| People Born Today |
- Samuel Butler, English poet & satirist (Hudibras)
- John Ruskin, writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
- Jules Verne, in France--pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
- Dame Edith Evans
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