@X0D Events on this day...  
@X0B             Pioneer Day in Utah.
@X0B        1701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
@X0B        1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
@X0B        1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,
@X0B        1929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
@X0B        1946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
@X0B        1959 Nixon has the `Kitchen Debate' with Khrushchev

@X0E Happy Birthday to: 
@X0F        1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish
@X0F        1802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
@X0F        1895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
@X0F        1898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder

@X0A Todays Witticism: 
@X0C        No one is so happy or sad as he imagines.