Animanga you oughta know: Orphen is a 6-volume manga series written by Yoshinobu Akita and drawn by Yuuya Kusaka and Hajime Sawada and published by Kadokawa Shoten in Dragon Comics. It first released in 1998. The English translation has been produced by ADV manga diivision. It was also made into a TV series.

Today in History: The greatest African-American ever to play baseball, Jackie Robinson, retired today.

Fact you oughta know: Canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution.