Today's Fact The word alligator comes from El Lagarto which is Spanish for The Lizard.


On this day in history ..
1663 - Earthquake in Canada
1887 - Snow falls on SF
1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million