Wednesday, March 14, 2012
[1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, baroque composer,
born in Magdeburg Germany]
[1743 - The City of Boston conducts its first town meeting in Faneuil Hall]
[1794 - Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin]
[1854 - Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize in Medicine, born in Strehlen, Silesia]
[1864 - Johnathan Luther 'Casey' Jones, railroad engineer, born in southeast Missouri]
[1879 - Albert Einstein, Nobel physicist, born in Ulm, Germany]
[1883 - Karl Marx, philosopher (Communist Manifesto),
dies at age 64]
[1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London]
[1912 - Les Brown, musician, bandleader, born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania]
[1916 - Albert Horton Foote, Jr., Pulitzer, Academy, Emmy award-winning playwright, screenwriter, born in Wharton, Texas]
[1918 - Dennis Patrick (Harrison), actor,
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1919 - Max Shulman, novelist, playwright,
born in St. Paul, Minnesota]
[1920 - {Henry King} Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, born in Seattle, Washington]
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.
to Winter 2011 - 2012
to Almanack Main Page
