Monday, June 25, 2012
[1788 - Virginia ratifies the Constitution and enters the United States of America as the tenth state]
[1798 - The Alien Act, allowing the president to deport dangerous aliens, is passed by US Congress]
[1874 - Rose O'Neill, illustrator, author, doll
designer, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]
[1876 - George Armstrong Custer and 265 men of
his 7th Cavalry command die at Little Big Horn]
[1886 - Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, Air Force General, born in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania]
[1887 - George Francis Abbott, Tony & Pulitzer award-winning
producer, director, writer, born in Forestville, New York]
[1893 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), author, born in Motihari, Bengal, India]
[1903 - Anne Revere, Tony & Academy Award-winning actress, born in New York City]
[1915 - Peter Lind Hayes (Joseph Conrad Lind), actor, born in San Francisco]
[1924 - Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1950 - North Korea invades South Korea]
[1973 - John Dean begins testimony
before Senate Watergate Committee]
The Hereafter is not a necessary component of one's belief system.
The Here is.
William's Whimsical Words:
Too great a reliance on a belief in an afterlife lies at the root of countless evils.
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