Day late: On this day in 1972, both the British children's television programme Rainbow and the UK soap opera Emmerdale debuted. In 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada. In 1944, the Junkers Ju 287 first flew. In 1923, The Walt Disney Company was founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney. And in 1882, the Nickel Plate Railroad opened for business. Happy Birthday Manute Bol and Flea (1962), Tim Robbins (1958), David Zucker and Bob Weir (1947), Suzanne Somers (1946), Angela Lansbury (1925), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Oscar Wilde (1854) and Noah Webster (1758). "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned." - Oliver Wendell Holmes