Monday, May 23, 2011
[1734 - Franz (Friedrich) Anton Mesmer, physician,
hypnotist, born on Lake Constance in Swabia, Germany]
[1788 - South Carolina joins the Union and becomes the eighth of the United States of America]
[1810 - (Sarah) Margaret Fuller (Ossoli), journalist,
feminist, author, born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts]
[1846 - Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb),
first woman admitted to law in U.S.,
born in Des Moines County, Iowa]
[1883 - Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Ulman), actor, born in Denver, Colorado]
[1890 - Herbert (Brough Falcon) Marshall, actor, born in London]
[1910 - Scatman (Benjamin Sherman) Crothers,
singer, actor, born in Terre Haute, Indiana]
[1911 - Dedication of the New York Public Library]
[1912 - John Payne, actor, born in Roanoke, Virginia]
[1922 - Robert 'Bumps' Blackwell,
musician, producer, arranger,
born in Seattle, Washington]
[1928 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, born in
Maysville, Kentucky]
[1944 - University of Chicago withdraws from Big 10 Conference and all NCAA sports]
[1948-1949 - Berlin Airlift]
[1949 - Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin lifts the Berlin Blockade following success of the Berlin Airlift]
William is eternally grateful to wise parents for his having been raised a skeptic.
William's Whimsical Words:
That is, if there is any such thing as eternity.
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