Today is Friday, February 3, 2012.

Born on This Day

1811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get MD from US Medical school
1874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
1959 Laurence (Lol) Tolhurst, The Cure

Events

1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service in San Francisco.
1966 Soviet Luna 9 first spacecraft to soft-land on moon

That's all for today.