22/02/10

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, for which he was eventually found guilty of heresy, was published in 1632.  The Battle of Fishguard began in 1797.  Frank Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10 cent store in Utica, New York in 1879.

Born today:  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), Edna St. Vincent-Millay (1892-1950), Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), John Mills (1908-2005), Giulietta Masina (1921-1994), Edward Gorey (1925-2000), Bruce Forsyth (1928), Julie Walters (1950), Nigel Planer (1953).

It is Independence Day in St. Lucia.