

[1;35;40m Events on this day...  
[1;36;40m             Flag Day
[1;36;40m        1775 The US Army is founded.
[1;36;40m        1777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
[1;36;40m        1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
[1;36;40m        1847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
[1;36;40m        1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
[1;36;40m        1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
[1;36;40m        1919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
[1;36;40m        1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.  How'd he do that?
[1;36;40m        1940 France falls to Nazi Germany.  Vichy water loses popularity.
[1;36;40m        1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released.  Thumper's first job.
[1;36;40m        1948 TV Guide is first published.
[1;36;40m        1951 UNIVAC 1, first commercial computer, is unveiled.
[1;36;40m        1952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
[1;36;40m        1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
[1;36;40m        1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
[1;36;40m        1982 Britain wins the 74 day war for the Falkland Islands.

[1;33;40m  Happy Birthday to: 
[1;37;40m        1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
[1;37;40m        1820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations
[1;37;40m        1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
[1;37;40m        1868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930)
[1;37;40m        1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
[1;37;40m        1958 Eric Heiden, skater, FIVE Gold Medals at 1984 Winter Olympics.

[1;32;40m  Todays Witticism: 
[1;31;40m        Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure.