Events on this day...  
            Pioneer Day in Utah.
       1701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
       1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
       1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,
       1929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
       1946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
       1959 Nixon has the `Kitchen Debate' with Khrushchev

  Happy Birthday to: 
       1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish
       1802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
       1895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
       1898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder

  Todays Witticism: 
        No one is so happy or sad as he imagines.