On this day in 2004, a 1.3 kg meteorite struck and seriously damaged a house in New Zealand. In 1997, the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new, more counterfeit-resistant $50 bill. In 1967, Venera 4, the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data, was launched. In 1859, The Comstock Lode was discovered near Virginia City, Nevada. And in 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York City, the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. Happy Birthday to supermodel Adriana Lima (1981), Timothy Busfield (1957), Marv Albert, Chick Corea and Roy Harper (1941), Jim Nabors (1930), Anne Frank (1929) and President George H. W. Bush (1924). RIP Gregory Peck (d.2003), Bill Blass (2002), Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson (1994), Medgar Evers (1963) and Jimmy Dorsey (1957). "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank A. Clark