Today's Fact
The blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. Its whistle can reach up to 188 decibels.


On this day in history ...
1600 - Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
1862 - Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant
1883 - Ladies Home Journal begins publication
1914 - 1st airplane flight to LA from SF
1918 - Lithuania declares independence from Germany
1923 - Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun
1937 - Nylon patented - WH Carothers
1938 - US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
1945 - US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3
1946 - 1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct
1951 - SF City Hall dome fire
1961 - 1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va
1964 - Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan