1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.
1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
Do not place shoes upon a table, for this
will bring bad luck for the day, cause trouble with your mate and
you might even lose your job as a result.
It's bad luck to leave shoes upside down.
Ghareloo Nuskha for General Weakness
Soak 8-10 almonds and 1 teaspoon rice overnight. Remove the outer skin of almonds. Grind into a fine paste. Mix in some milk and a pinch of turmeric powder (haldi). Boil and drink along with sugar candy (mishri) or ordinary sugar to taste.
To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will
undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness.
For a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing
to her extravagance.