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Fact of the Day: Lincoln Logs

Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The inspiration for Lincoln Logs came in 1916 when 24-year-old John took a trip to Tokyo, Japan, where Frank Lloyd Wright was building the Imperial Hotel. John watched workers build the earthquake-proof structure using the revolutionary technique of interlocking beams. When John returned to America, he created Lincoln Logs, which were named for President Abraham Lincoln and originally made of redwood.

Holidays

United Nations Day.
Zambia: Independence Day.

Events

439 - Carthage, Roman city in North Africa, fell to Genseric and the Vandals.
1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia was signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
1795 - The last independent Polish territory was divided between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the country of Poland ceased to exist.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Justice Stephen J. Field of California to President Abraham Lincoln. This put the Pony Express out of business.
1897 - The first comic strip appeared in the Sunday color supplement of the "New York Journal," called the "Yellow Kid."
1901 - Annie Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old daredevil widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1929 - Black Thursday, the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened, spanning the Hudson River in New York City.
1939 - Nylon stockings went on sale, in Wilmington, Delaware.
1940 - The 40-hour work week went into effect in the U.S., under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
1945 - The United Nations charter took effect.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went to DEFCON 2, the highest military alert ever reached in the postwar era, as military commanders prepared for full-scale war with the Soviet Union.
1987 - The Teamsters Union was welcomed back to the AFL-CIO after being expelled 30 years earlier.
1989 - Reverend Jim Bakker, television evangelist, was sentenced to 45 years is prison and fined $500,000 for his conviction on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
2002 - Authorities arrested Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo in connection with the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks.

Births

1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscope pioneer.
1767 - Jacques Lafitte, French banker and politician.
1904 - Moss Hart, American playwright and director.
1926 - Y.A. Tittle, pro football Hall-of-Famer.
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor.

Deaths

1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward (later King Edward VI).
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer.

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So between getting redwoods cut down and running the Pony Express out of business it turns out that Lincoln was a real asshole! And through no fault of his own, even.