On this day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt uses the term "muckrake" in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C. He means to say "cupcake," but his tongue gets caught in his dentures.
On this day in 1950, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announce they have created a new radioactive element, which they name "californium," since they were fornicating in California at the time of the discovery.