A nursing home in California shut down and staff went home even though there was more than a dozen patients still there. Cook and Janitor stayed and cared for them for two days.
The scent given off by each person’s unique immune system is the second-most important criteria (after disposition) women use to assess potential partners. Women are more likely to find people attractive who have with immune systems unlike their own.
When pirate Jean Lafitte saw the governor advertising a $500 reward for his capture, Lafitte offered $5,000 for the capture of the governor.
In 1977 a plane crashed into Yosemite Park, containing almost 10,000 pounds of marijuana. Local rock climbers were first on the scene and amassed a fortune from the wreckage.
In 1974 sociologist Phillip Kunz sent 600 Christmas cards randomly to people he didn’t know. He got more then 200 replies, including people sending pictures of their families, diplomas and new homes.
1851 - Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
1957 - Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry"
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1985 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
2009 - President Hugo Chavez states that Venezuela is in recession as the economy contracted 4.5% in the third quarter
1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1873 - Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1943 - Mushtaq Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spin all-rounder 1959-79)
1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1953 - Wayne Larkins, cricketer (England opening batsman of 80's)
1964 - Benoit Benjamin, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1718 - Blackbeard, notorious English pirate, dies in battle at 38
1773 - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1803 - Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57
1989 - Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1994 - Norma Donaldson, US singer/actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68
