On March 31st, 1930: The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
On March 31st, 1951: The first commercial United States made computer, the UNIVAC I, is delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
28 October 1886: The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
28 October 1919: Congress passed the Volstead Act, or the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
28 October 1940: Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Sir Winston Churchill
