Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1790 - The first copyright was issued for a book: "The Philadelphia Spelling Book."
1986 - The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and
rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives
of seven astronauts.
Notable Births
1672 - Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich), Russian emperor (1682-1725).
He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now,
God knows, anything goes.
1961 - Michael J. Fox (born Michael Andrew Fox), Canadian-born film and television actor.
Notable Deaths
1870 - Charles Dickens, English writer. "A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."
Charles Dickens was the first literary superstar - his popular works reached a wider
audience than any writer before him. With classics like Oliver Twist, A Christmas
Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, andDavid Copperfield, Dickens dominated
the literary life of 19th-century England and the United States. But like many remarkable
people, Dickens was a complex, multi-layered individual, full of peculiar quirks and odd
habits
PRACTICAL JOKER. Dicken's study had a secret door designed to look like a bookcase. The
shelves were full of fake books with witty titles, such as Noah's Arkitecture and a nine-
volume set titled Cat's Lives. One of his favorites was a multi-volume series called The
Wisdom of Our Ancestors, dealing with subjects like ignorance, superstition, disease, and
instruments of torture, and a companion book titled The Virtues of Our Ancestors, which
was so narrow that the title had to be printed vertically.