Friday, April 15, 2011  
 
    
  
[1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist, painter, inventor, born in Tuscan town of Vinci] 
 
[1783 - Continental Congress ratifies articles of peace ending Revolutionary War with Britain] 
 
 
     
[1843 - Henry James, author, critic, born in New York City] 
 
 
     
[1866 - Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker), outlaw, born in Circleville, Utah] 
 
     
[1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, artist, born in Neosho, Missouri] 
 
 
       
  
[1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee] 
 
   
[1912 - The British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic] 
 
     
[1917 - Hans Conried, actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland] 
 
  
[1922 - Harold Lee Washington, Chicago mayor, born in Chicago] 
 
 
       
  
[1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, born in New York City] 
 
    
  
[1955 - Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois] 
 
  
[1961 - Launching of first nuclear-powered frigate, USS Bainbridge(DLGN-25)] 
n.b.  This is not the Destroyer Bainbridge that was involved in the 2009 dust-up off the horn of Africa. 
  (US Navy-4, Pirates-0).
 
  
 No Suffering 
 
Suffer not fools gladly. 
Suffer not scoundrels at all. 
 
  
 William's Whimsical Words:  
  Suffer not.  
 
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