Horoscopes
Aries (March 21-April 19): There’s something you want to tell a crowd today. If you can build rapport with one person you can build rapport with many at one time. Use social media, a soapbox or a mountaintop to tell your story. Taurus (April 20-May 20): You don’t mind standing out in some way: In fact, you benefit from it, even if said “way” is a little bit controversial. Better to raise a few eyebrows than to be invisible. Gemini (May 21-June 21): Just because they love you doesn’t mean they understand you. You long for an intellectual connection, but affection comes for different reasons and from other directions. It’s still pure and true. Cancer (June 22-July 22): Does it frustrate you to know there is nothing you can do about the outcome? Hopefully, you can find a way to let this liberate you instead. Trust in the work you’ve already done. Watch to see what grows. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Is this anticipation or apprehension that you’re feeling? Maybe both, but figure out the dominating emotion. If you’re apprehensive, it means there’s still a little more preparation to do before you make your move. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No relationship is all sunshine and rainbows. Hopefully, there is quite a lot of sunshine and the occasional rainbow — but of course, such a phenomenon usually occurs after a rainstorm. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You won’t find friends today; they’ll find you. The people who have a similar vibe to yours can feel you. They can see your inner light, and they’ll want to claim you for their own. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): People need constant encouragement. You can’t just give out pats on the back at the end. Most of them won’t even make it there. Whatever your usual reward system is, today you’ll need to triple it to see results. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Before you make a big effort to demonstrate your love, take measures to get reasonably sure that the gesture is one that the other person is likely to see as love. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Privacy is a requirement of every relationship. Close relationships need even more of it. Instead of feeling guilty about this, revel in your right to experiences that are yours and yours alone. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re an antennae for important information and especially helpful to those around you who have trouble discerning that from the dreck. You’ll help all stay on track with priorities. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): News feed clutter abounds. You have to wonder about the people who feel compelled to tell the whole world what a fantastic time they are having with the loved ones who are, presumably, within talking distance. To write to Holiday Mathis, visit www.creators.com/ author/holiday-mathis and click “Contact.”
Thomas Jefferson was confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.
John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band performed publicly for the first time at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok, 64, died in New York City.
The musical play “West Side Story” opened on Broadway.
The first-ever debate between presidential nominees took place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off before a national TV audience from Chicago.
Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
President Bill Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies. Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was formally sentenced to death in San Jose, California.