BIRTHDAYS:
1737, Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire."

1786, Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.

1828, Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.

1829, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized U.S. pianist.

1884, Harry S Truman, 32nd President. The "S" doesn't stand for anything (thus no period)

1895, Fulton J. Sheen

1926, Don Rickles, comedian.

1930, Gary Schneider

1943, Jim Morrison, Door.

1954, David Keith, actor.

1964, Melissa Gilbert, actress.


EVENTS:
1541, Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.

1886, Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.

Opportunities? They are all around us...there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
- Orison Swett Marden