World Philosophy Day
Monaco’s National Day
Birthdays for designer Calvin Klein (1942), and actors Meg Ryan (1961), Jodie Foster (1962) and Adam Driver (1983)
Anniversary of:
• American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patenting the pencil (1895)
- On average a pencil can be sharpened 17 times, draw a line 35 miles long and can write approximately 45,000 words.
- An average size tree will make approximately 300,000 pencils.
- Thomas Edison had his pencils specially made to be thicker than the average pencil.
• the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from the Politburo (1926)
• the death of cult leader Charles Manson (2017)
