Monday, May 16, 2005
[1717 - Voltaire imprisoned in Bastille]
[1817 - Steamboat service begins on Mississippi River]
[1905 - Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Grand Island, Nebraska]
[1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player, manager, born in Berkeley, California]
[1929 - First Academy Awards presented]
[1946 - Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opens on Broadway at Imperial Theatre, runs for 1,147 performances]
[1968 - Donald E. Ballard, Navy Corpsman, receives Medal of Honor for action in Quang Tri Province, with 3rd Marine Division unit]
Is There No End to these Nursery Rhymes?
Ickory Stickory Slop
Hickory, dickory, dock!
The troops went to Iraq.
The clock struck one, and two, and three,
And still the country wasn't free,
Stickory, Trickery, Flop!