
[1;35;40m Events on this day...  
[1;36;40m             Pioneer Day in Utah.
[1;36;40m        1701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
[1;36;40m        1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
[1;36;40m        1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,
[1;36;40m        1929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
[1;36;40m        1946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
[1;36;40m        1959 Nixon has the `Kitchen Debate' with Khrushchev

[1;33;40m  Happy Birthday to: 
[1;37;40m        1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish
[1;37;40m        1802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
[1;37;40m        1895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
[1;37;40m        1898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder

[1;32;40m  Todays Witticism: 
[1;31;40m        No one is so happy or sad as he imagines.