Thursday, February 9, 2006
[1799 - USS Constellation (Captain Truxtun) captures French l'Insurgente]
[1870 - United States Weather Bureau authorized by Congress]
[1909 - Dean Rusk, Secretary of State for Kennedy & Johnson, born in Lickskillet, Georgia]
[1909 - Founding of Brickyard; Indianapolis Motor Speedway incorporated by Carl G. Fisher]
[1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, dancer, stripper, born in Seattle, Washington]
[1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish dramatist, born in Dublin]
[1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy first says communists are in US State Department]
No Time
Why is it that we never seem to have the time to do it right,
But we always have the time to do it over?
William's Whimsical Words:
No time like the present, and no present so great a gift as time.
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