Train Ride
Overheard
At lunch:
E: [about a cartoon] ...then she fixed the firetruck.
D: You know, your Uncle Joe used to be a fireman. He got to drive a firetruck
and put out fires. Like your cousin Erika.
E: I never did that before! I never ever drove a firetruck. [looks outside] Not right
now. It's getting dark. I can't drive a firetruck in the dark.
now. It's getting dark. I can't drive a firetruck in the dark.
This
Day In History
313
The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1249
Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1645
Miyamoto Musashi passes away in Reigando, the cave in which he wrote the Book of Five Rings.
1777
Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805
Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1893
Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1927
Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1970
"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1983
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
2010
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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Birthdays
1584
Miyamoto Musashi, Legendary Samurai warrior, artist, and author of The Book of Five Rings (d. 1645)
1752
Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
1786
Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
1831
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
1865
William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1892
Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
1893
Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
1897
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
1903
Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1915
Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
1926
Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
1928
John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1943
Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1945
Whitley Strieber, American author
1951
Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1953
Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
1972
Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1973
Tanner Foust, American racing driver
1978
Ethan Embry, American actor
1981
Chris Evans, American actor
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