1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Cartographer.

1623 ~ The first temperance law in the colonies was enacted in Virginia. I would have expected it in New England.

1845 ~ The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S. Just think – the “Ghan” could have been running from Sacramento to San Antonio!

1846 ~ First track meet between Oxford and Cambridge.

1898 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer.

1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, Actor.

1924 ~ Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp. became IBM.

1931 ~ Birthday of Barry Tuckwell, Hornist

1946 ~ Winston Churchill's gave his "Iron Curtain" speech.

1976 ~ British £1 fell below $2 for first time.

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