Tuesday, July 31, 2007, #144 (1411)

Today in history
1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad
1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers
1790 - First U.S. patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1948 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated
2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana [La Pequena Habana in Spanish], Miami, Florida, where many Cuban-Americans participated

Birthdays
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
1914 - Louis de Funes, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
1965 - J. K. Rowling, British novelist (her most famous character, Harry Potter was also born this day, but in 1980)

Georgian Words of the Day
bread - puri
egg - kvertskhi
flour - pkvili
sugar - shakari

I usually buy this type of bread, it's tastier.
me am purs vqidulob kholme, is upro gemrielia.

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