hirtellous \hur-TEL-uhs\, verb:
- Minutely hirsute.
grown-up
- A nickname for your supervisor at work; usually used in plural form to describe a group of supervisors.
History
- Marie Antoinette: extravagant queen was beheaded during the French Revolution (1793)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry: the abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize a US arsenal in West Virginia; his group was defeated and he was executed for treason (1859)
- birth control: nurse Margaret Sanger founded the first clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York, for which she was arrested (1916)
- Cuban missile crisis: cold war confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union began when Khrushchev installed ballistic missiles in Cuba (1962)
- Million Man March: black men rallied in Washington, DC, led by Louis Farrakhan, in an effort to increase voting and community involvement (1995)
Birthdays
- Noah Webster 1758
- Oscar Wilde 1854
- David Ben-Gurion 1886
- Eugene O'Neill 1888
- Linda Darnell 1921
- Bert Kaempfert 1923
- Angela Lansbury 1925
- Gunter Grass 1927
- Charles Colson 1931
- Tony Anthony 1937
- Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938
- Barry Corbin 1940
- Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943
- Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945
- Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946
- Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947
- Bob Collyard 1949
Tim Robbins 1958
- Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959
- Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
- Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969
- B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
- Kellie Martin 1975
- Jeremy Jackson 1980




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