Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes his masterpiece 40th Symphony: the Great G-Minor, Jack London sails from San Francisco for gold in the Yukon, and US Pres. John F. Kennedy says any attack on West Berlin by the Russians would be treated as an attack on US soil. It is the birthday of political analyst and writer Anne Applebaum - with a reading from her book "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism."