Monday, August 24, 2009
[0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii]
[0410 - Rome is overrun by Visigoths]
[1814 - British sack Washington, DC]
[1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic Champion swimmer, surfer, born in Haleakala, Hawaii]
[1900 - Preston Foster, actor, born in Ocean City, New Jersey]
[1917 - Dennis James (Demi James Sposa), TV host,
born in Jersey City, New Jersey]
[1929 - Yasser Arafat (Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini),
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman, born in Cairo]
[1930 - Roger McCluskey, race car driver, born in Tucson, Arizona]
The Kittycat has a little pink nose.
He got it from his mother, I suppose.
When he asks you for more affection,
He purrs and rubs with circumspection.
That he also has enormous green eyes,
Should certainly come as no surprise.