Today in History

• 1620 John Graunt, statistician, founds the science of demography
• 1750 S.A.J. L'Huillier --1840
• 1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist (Barchester Towers)
• 1899 O. Zariski --1986
• 1934 Shirley MacLaine
• 1936 Jill Ireland
• 1942 Barbra Streisand, profile
• 1945 Doug Clifford
• 1957 Boris Williams, The Cure
• 1972 Chipper Jones

• TV-Turnoff Week
• 1800 Library of Congress is founded with a $5000 allocation.
• 1865 SF Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph system put into operation.
• 1934 Wind gusts reach 372 kph at Mt Washington, NH
• 1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
• 1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for first time: CA to MA
• 1970 China launchs first satellite, transmitting song "East is Red".
• 1990 Hubble Space Telescope is put into orbit by shuttle Discovery.
• 1997 Bjork awarded Knights Cross medal of honour by the President of Iceland