On this day twenty-seven years ago, my wife celebrated her first birthday as Mrs. Roth.
1845 — rubber band patented
1942 — first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland)
1966 — off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine found a missing American hydrogen bomb
Oh, and today is Evacuation Day in part of Massachusetts.