@X0D Events on this day...  
@X0B             Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
@X0B        1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
@X0B        1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
@X0B        1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US canal rights thru Panama
@X0B        1913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop
@X0B        1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
@X0B        1928 Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willy"
@X0B        1936 Main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.

@X0E Happy Birthday to: 
@X0F        1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
@X0F        1836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
@X0F        1899 Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
@X0F        1923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
@X0F        1928 Mickey Mouse, film star

@X0A Todays Witticism: 
@X0C        And I thought *I* had problems!