Friday, August 5, 2005

[1850 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, born near Dieppe, France]

[1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay, RADM David Farragut shouts
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"]

[1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid at Bedloe's (now Liberty) Island]

[1889 - Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Savannah, Georgia]

[1906 - John Huston, Academy Award-winning director, born in Nevada, Missouri]

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Gentle Readers: Will Henry is on vacation for most of the month of August. Poor Williams's Almanac will resume its daily postings after Labor Day.

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