20 augustus

before we could get him in to this bath he expired, with a great deel of composure — Clark Charles Floyd probably died of a burst appendix, which no doctor of 1804 could have treated. He was the only member of the expedition to die on it. They buried him on a bluff with a cedar post at his head…

Renfield, strait-waistcoated and in the padded room, has quietened since the moon rose: “Now I can wait; now I can wait.” His attacks are less frequent, and Seward plans to ease his bonds for a few hours at a time.

Mina joins Lucy at Whitby while no word comes from Jonathan. The storm, the wreck and Mr. Swales’s death frame Lucy’s first sleepwalking, and Mina leaves on 20 August to nurse Jonathan in Buda-Pesth.

Alexander Dubček, the new party leader, promised “socialism with a human face”: censorship all but ended, and Czechs and Slovaks began to say what they thought. Moscow watched with growing alarm.

Finishing “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” and setting the running order of the new album. It was the last time all four Beatles were in a studio together.

No more tours, no deadlines, and as much time in EMI’s studios as they wanted. With George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick they made the studio an instrument; Sgt. Pepper alone took about 700 hours.

An orbiter and a lander, with Viking 2 as its twin. The landers’ biology experiments gave results that still divide scientists. Built for 90 days, Viking 1’s lander worked for six years, until a faulty command pointed its antenna away from Earth.