Today's fact
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.


On this day in history ...
1541 - Santiago - Chile founded
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC
1924 - Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporated
1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference
1947 - A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1980 - 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau