Pale fire

Phil's photo, not mine.

Important note you probably won't see on TV.

Lots of birthdays today:
In 1658, Giuseppe Torelli was born.
In 1724, Immanuel Kant came along.
In 1870, V.I. Lenin joined the race.
In 1891, Sergei Prokofiev took his first breath.
In 1899, Vladimir Nabokov came into the light.
And in 1937, Jack Nicholson yelled for the first time.

In 1889, the Land Run of 1889 officially started. Many entered the territory early and staked out the best spots, before the official starting time. These folks were later called “Sooners.”
In 1898, President McKinley blockaded Cuba.
In 1949, Science reported that Dr. A.D. Bajkov, an ichthyologist, was bombarded with fish from the sky shortly after breakfast in Biloxi, Mississipi.
In 1959, the Chicago White Sox scored 11 runs on one hit, 10 walks and three errors, against the Kansas City A’s –in one inning. Ugh.