Saturday, July 10, 2010
[1856 - Nicola Tesla, scientist, inventor, born in Smiljan, Croatia]
[1834 - James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler, artist, born in Lowell, Massachusetts]
[1839 - Adolphus Busch, brewer, born in Kastel,
Hesse, Germany]
[1871 - Marcel Proust, author, critic, essayist, born in Auteuil, France]
[1900 - Mitchell Parish, songwriter, lyricist, born in Shreveport,
Louisiana]
[1903 - John Wyndham (John Wyndham
Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris),Sci-Fi author,
born in Knowle, Warwickshire, England]
[1914 - Joe Shuster, comic book artist, born in Toronto, Canada]
[1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, born in Lachine, Quebec]
[1917 - Don Herbert (Donald Jeffrey Herbert Kemske), science teacher, actor, born in Waconia, Minnesota]
[1920 - David Brinkley, TV journalist, born in
Wilmington, North Carolina]
[1923 - Jean Kerr (Collins), author, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania]
[1925 - Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee, of John Scopes, high school science teacher, accused of
teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee state law]
[1931 - Nick Adams, actor, born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania]
[1943 - Arthur Ashe, Tennis Hall of Famer, born in Richmond, Virginia]
[1987 - French agents sink Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor killing Fernando Pereira]
Stray Cat
He was found with his brother under a bush
Ran up a tree and refused to come down.
The neighborhood rescue squad was called.
When they caught him they were all appalled.
Smelling of gasoline, with every rib showing,
This bedraggled kitten was hardly a prize.
Too frightened to purr when held or petted.
He hid in dark places showing only cat eyes.