Straddlebug || Today

Birthdays
1908 - Joan Crawford
1929 - Roger Bannister
1953 - Yvette Marie Stevens

Quote
There's one way to find out if a man is honest -- ask him. If he says "yes", you know he's crooked.
-- Groucho Marx

History
1775 - Patrick Henry gave his Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech.

Events
Near Miss Day -- In 1989 an asteroid passed within a half million miles of Earth, a near miss by cosmic standards.