Almanac of Absurdities for 9/24/10

On this day in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne into Little Rock Arkansas to enforce his order to desegregate the schools, an act of moral courage and strength for which he is too rarely credited. Birthdays for Sir Arthur Guinness...yes THAT Guinness...F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Henson, Kevin Sorbo and the Honda Motor Company. And apparently it's National Punctuation Day.