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Monday, March 14, 2005
[1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, baroque composer, born in Magdeburg Germany]
[1743 - City of Boston conducts first town meeting in Faneuil Hall]
[1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin]
[1879 - Albert Einstein, Nobel physicist, born in Ulm, Germany]
[1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher, dies at 64]
[1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London]
[1896 - Official opening of Sutro Baths at San Francisco Ocean Beach]
Immortality
Hardly passes any day,
That I don't recall and say,
something that my Mother told me.
Neither do I turn the page,
of the diary of my age,
and do not what my Father showed me.
William's Whimsical Words:
Your parents and your country of origin are accidents of birth.
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