Straddlebug || Today

Birthdays
1909 - Burl Ives
1958 - Eric Heiden
1961 - Boy George
1969 - Steffi Graf

Quote
Fashion: A form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

History
1951 - The first commercial computer, Univac, was demonstrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Events
Flag Day -- First celebrated in Philadelphia in 1893.