George Eastman gets the U.S. patent for photographic strip film, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Aung San Suu Kyi, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat are awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. Happy birthdays to Katherine Mansfield and Usher - with a reading from Mansfield's "At the Bay."