• Topeka's population: 120,300
• U.S. population:279,582,215

The weather

• The sun rose over Topeka at 6:42 a.m. and set at 8:03 p.m.     The nation's weather extremes were 91° at Wink, Texas and 6° at Houlton, Maine.

• The minimum wage in Kansas was $5.15.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 8337.65.
• A loaf of bread was$1.49.
• A gallon of Milk cost $2.89.
• A first class stamp was $0.37.
• The average new home cost $132,500.00.
• And the price of a new car was $21,750.00.

• 1519 - Lucrezia Borgia - Italian noblewoman who was a key figure in the intrigues of the most influential political family of the era, the Borgias.
• 1857 - Clarence Darrow - The most famous criminal defense attorney of his time, whose career became the model for defense lawyers for generations.
• 1880 - Sam Crawford - Hall of Fame baseball player who set the record for career triples with 312.
• 1888 - Sir Arnold Lunn - Snow skiing pioneer who invented the modern slalom event and organized the first world championships and Olympic downhill skiing events in 1936.

• 1775 - Paul Revere set out on his ride from Charleston to Lexington alerting the minutemen militia and Revolutionary leaders that "the British are coming." The American War of Independence started the next morning.
• 1906 - At a little after 5 A.M. the San Francisco earthquake shook the west coast from Los Angeles to Coos Bay, Oregon. A fire resulted in San Francisco that devoured most of the city's business district.
• 1910 - Walter Richard Brookins took off in an airplane from Montgomery, Alabama, recording the first night flight in history.
• 1978 - The United States Senate voted to approve the transfer of full ownership and control of the Panama Canal to Panama, effective in the year 2000.