Today would have been the 95th birthday of Milton Friedman.
It also marks the end of the British army's 38-year Operation Banner in Northern Ireland to quell sectarian violence.
Today in History (1944) - SCOTUS announces its decision in Korematsu v. United States. To make it topical, see Prof. Muller's call for responses to the hypo of having Muslims interned after a series of 9/11-scale attacks.