1972. The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second touchdown catch by Franco Harris that was dubbed the “immaculate reception.”

1955. Time travel is invented by Dr. Emmett Brown

Ivan Illich. Born in 1926.

The pupil is “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends. (Deschooling Society)

1911. Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, born 1828.

“…in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

1899. Jorge Luis Borges born.

The Baltic Way was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on August 23, 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 370 miles across the three Baltic states – Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Lithuanian SSR.

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Born in 1908.

1911. Birth of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.

“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”

2011 Hall of Fame inductee, Arvydas Sabonis.