Also on This Day: December 23

Also on this day...
Festivus - for the rest of us

Joseph Smith, Jr. - founder of the Mormon Church - was born in 1805. Henry B. Guppy - botanist - was born in 1854.

Peggy Fortnum - illustrator who brought Paddington Bear to life on page - was born in 1919. Robert Bly - poet - was born in 1926.