Thursday, September 1, 2011
[1859 - The First Pullman sleeping car begins rail service]
[1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, soldier, writer, born in Chicago]
[1898 - Richard Arlen (Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore), actor, born in Charlottesville, Virginia]
[1900 - Don Wilson, announcer, actor, born in Lincoln, Nebraska]
[1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, athlete, actor, born in Dothan, Alabama]
[1907 - Walter (Philip) Reuther, labor leader, born in Wheeling, West Virginia]
[1920 - Richard Farnsworth, stunt man, actor, born in Los Angeles]
[1922 - Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia]
[1922 - Vittorio Gassman, actor, born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy]
[1923 - Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), Undefeated World Heavyweight Champion, born in Brockton, Massachusetts]
[1933 - (Dorothy) Ann (Willis) Richards, Texas Governor, born in Lakeview, Texas]
[1933 - Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins), singer, songwriter, born in Friars Point, Mississippi]
[1937 - Ron O'Neal, actor, director, screenwriter, born in Utica, New York]
[1939 - Germany invades Poland (WW-II begins)]
[1972 - American Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky of Russia in the world chess championship]
Apologies to Steve Goodman
Good Morning, America,
Where are you?
Don't you know me?
I'm your Native Son.
I'm the place
They used to call New Orleans.
Seems like 500 days
For you to come.
William's Whimsical Words:
Can you hear Arlo Guthrie singing?
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