White wigging

Mt Hood, seen from above the Gorge on the Washington side. We were on the way home from Yakima at this point.

On this day in 1803 at around midday a strange 5-meter wide glass-topped round object was seen off the coast of Harayadori, Japan, by some fishermen who went to inspect. Inside was a red-haired woman, with a white wig, who did not speak Japanese but only smiled at them. She clutched a box, and they noticed rugs, a water bottle and what looked like fruit and meat. Not wishing to tangle with the authorities they pushed her back out to sea. There are two accounts of this event, in the Toen-shoesetsu (1825) and the Ume-no-chiri (1844).

In music history, Leo Delibes and Andres Segovia were born (1836 and 1893, respectively).