Sunday, April 26, 2009
[0121 - Marcus Aurelius, Emperor,
born in Rome]
[1785 - John James Audubon, ornithologist,
artist, born in Les Cayes, Haiti]
[1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, born in Hartford, Connecticut]
[1886 - Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey (Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett),
blues singer, born in Columbus, Georgia]
[1893 - Anita Loos, novelist and screenwriter, born in Mt. Shasta, California]
[1900 - Charles Francis Richter, seismologist,
born near Hamilton, Ohio]
[1904 - Charles K. Feldman, film producer, born in New York City]
[USS Hobson (DD-464)underway off Charleston in 1942]
[1952 - USS Hobson sinks after colliding with USS Wasp; 176 lives are lost]
[1986 - Accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Soviet Union]
[1986 - Accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Soviet Union. 32 die, dozens more suffer radiation burns]
Humility
In youth we are often arrogant and proud, thinking that this becomes us. It need not. In later years we can enjoy a well-deserved and honestly earned humility.
He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.