1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
Happy Birthday to...
A.A. Milne
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Aleksandra Ekster
Danny Kaye
Robert Anton Wilson
"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."
"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
"Belief is the death of intelligence."
Raymond Briggs
David Ruffin
Dave Greenslade
R. Stevie Moore
Jim O'Rourke
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