"Obviously, few of us are in a position to restore the forests.. But tens of millions of us have gardens, or access to open spaces such as industrial wastelands, where trees can be planted. and if full advantage can be taken of the potentialities that are available even in heavily built up areas, new "city forests" can arise..." (Robert A.de J.Hart)
... Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
Deaths:
January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic ...