Monday, April 4, 2011
[1821 - Linus Yale, Jr., engineer, locksmith,
inventor, born in Salisbury, New York]
[1873 - Carrie S. Burnham argues for her right to vote in Supreme Court of Pennsylvania]
(She lost)
[1895 - Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman), dance teacher, businessman, born in Galicia, Austria-Hungary]
[1906 - John Cameron Swayze, newsman, born in
Wichita, Kansas]
[1914 - Frances (Newbern) Langford, singer, born in Lakeland, Florida]
[1915 - Muddy Waters, blues singer, guitarist, born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi]
[1922 - Elmer Bernstein, Academy Award-winning composer, born in New York City]
[1924 - Gil Hodges, Brooklyn Dodger first baseman, born in Princeton, Indiana]
[1932 - Anthony Perkins, actor, born in New York City]
[1938 - Angelo (Bartlett) Giamatti, baseball
commissioner, born in Boston, Massachusetts]
[1939 - Linda Darnell, actress, born in Dallas, Texas]
[1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
is established]
[1968 - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
is fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee]
[1979 - Heath (Heathcliff Andrew) Ledger, Academy Award-winning actor, born in
Perth, Western Australia]
It can be difficult to come to terms with the realization that you aren't a Mozart, and that it is good enough to just try to be a Salieri.
William's Whimsical Words:
And if you aren't a Salieri either, it is still OK.
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