Wednesday, April 27, 2011
[1737 - Edward Gibbon, historian, author, born in Putney, Surrey, England]
[1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, author, women's rights
advocate, born in Spitalfields, London]
[1791 - Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse, painter,
inventor, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts]
[1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, military leader, U.S. president, born in Point Pleasant, Ohio]
[1865 - Worst steamship disaster in US history: SS Sultana, carrying 2,300 released Union Civil War POW passengers, explodes en route North to Cairo, Illinois]
[1882 - Jessie Redmon Fauset, poet, author, essayist, born in Camden County, New Jersey]
[1896 - Rogers 'Rajah' Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer, born in Winters, Texas]
[1900 - Walter Lantz, Academy Award-winning animator, born in New Rochelle, New York]
[1916 - Enos (Bradsher) 'Country' Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Famer, born in Roxboro, North Carolina]
[1927 - Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader,
born in Perry County, Alabama]
[1931 - Robert Donner, actor, born in New York City]
[1937 - Sandy Dennis, Academy Award-winning
actress, born in Hastings, Nebraska]
[1941 - Athens falls to German army, end of Greek Army resistance]
[1945 - August Wilson (Frederick August Kittel), Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning
playwright, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
[1956 - Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated
world heavyweight boxing champion]
It would be well to keep in mind that everything comes with a price-tag on it, and most items are purchased not with dollars, but with dear coinage of a different kind.
William's Whimsical Words:
No "Get out of life free" card, either.
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