Wednesday, August 1, 2012
[1770 - William Clark, explorer, born in Caroline, Virginia]
[1779 - Francis Scott Key, lawyer, poet, born in Frederick (now Carroll) County, Maryland]
[1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts]
[1819 - Herman Melville, author, born in
New York City]
[1873 - First cable streetcar in USA begins service on Clay Street, San Francisco]
[1876 - Colorado entered the Union as the Centennial State]
[Henry Jones, actor, born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania]
[1916 - James Hill, film producer, born in
Jeffersonville, Indiana]
[1921 - John Albert 'Jack' Kramer, Tennis Hall of Fame champion, born in Los Angeles]
[1922 - Arthur Edward Spence Hill, actor, born
in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada]
[1929 - Michael Stewart (Rubin), playwright, librettist, born in New York City]
[1933 - Dom Deluise, comedian, actor,
born in Brooklyn]
[1941 - Ron Brown, Commerce Secretary, born in Washington, D.C.]
[1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, Grateful Dead, born in San Francisco]
[1944 - Anne Frank (13) makes
the last entry in her diary]
[1953 - Shane, classic western movie, is released
by Paramount]
The most important US Military Action in Afghanistan to date was the recovery in 2005 of the body of the fourth member of a Navy SEAL unit that had been ambushed in the rugged South-Eastern part of the country. Although only one SEAL survived, all four came home.
William's Whimsical Words:
King Priam started quite a tradition.
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