Photos of Sebastian by Frances Nkara

1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded in London

1787 Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni debuts in Prague

1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

1891 Singing comedienne Fanny Brice is born

1901 Mass-murdering nurse Jane Toppan is arrested in Amherst

1929 BLACK TUESDAY: STOCK MARKET CRASHES

1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale ($12.50), 57 years after it was patented

1947 Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born

1960 Cassius Clay wins his first pro bout — over Tunney Hunsaker

1961 “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean tops the charts

1966 The National Organization for Women is founded

1967 The musical ”Hair” opens off-Broadway

1971 Actress Winona Ryder is born

1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive

1992 Depo Provera, a contraceptive, is approved by the FDA

2004 Sotheby fails to sell “Wilde Myth”, a diatribe about Oscar Wilde by his former lover Bosie

2005 LAW BABY YEAH!

We laughed, we cried, we were scared to death and now we are overjoyed.

Sebastian James Law was born 9:04am on October 29th, 2005.

More later…