Today's fact

There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1.



On this day in history ..
1664 - NJ became a British colony
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence - Italy
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 - 1st $20 gold piece issued
1868 - Congress abolishes manufactures tax
1877 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1888 - Great blizzard of '88 kill 400 in NE US
1903 - AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
1925 - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast
1925 - Chinese rev leader Sun Yat-Sen died
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
1936 - FDR's 1st "Fireside Chat"
1938 - Germany invades Austria
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
1945 - British Empire Day
1958 - Commonwealth Day
1959 - House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1963 - Bob Dylan cancels Ed Sullivan appearance
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1968 - Mauritius gains ind from Britain (Natl Day)
1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial - Richmond - VA
1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange