Fact of the Day

Vanilla beans are the product of the world's only fruit-producing orchid, the Vanilla planifolia.

Today in History

1830 Trail of Tears US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Today's Birthdays

1904 Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze

1864 Basil Grieve

1961 Roland Gift