Thursday, February 9, 2012
[1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President, born in Charles County, Virginia]
[1799 - USS Constellation (Captain Truxtun commanding) captures the French frigate l'Insurgente]
[1866 - George Ade, humorist, journalist, playwright, born in Kentland, Indiana]
[1870 - United States Weather Bureau (now National Weather Service) is authorized by Congress]
[1874 - Amy Lowell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Boston]
[1891 - Ronald (Charles) Colman, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Richmond,
Surrey, England]
[1901 - (Waldo) Brian Donlevy, actor, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland]
[1909 - Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia]
[1909 - The Brickyard is Founded; The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is incorporated by Carl G. Fisher]
[1914 - Bill (William Louis) Veeck, Jr., Baseball Hall of Fame owner, born in Chicago]
[1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, dancer, stripper, born in Seattle, Washington]
[1922 - Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Hednick), actress, singer, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina]
[1923 - Brendan Behan, drinker, writer, dramatist, poet, revolutionary, born in Dublin]
[1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy claims communists have infiltrated
The US State Department]
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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