Wednesday, October 13, 2010

[1754 - Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley),
Revolutionary War heroine, born
near Trenton, New Jersey]

   
[1775 - The Continental Navy is established by Resolution of Congress]

[1792 - President's (later White) House cornerstone is laid]

[1821 - Rudolf Virchow, scientist, born in
Schivelbein (Pomerania)]

[1902 - Wilbur Shaw, racecar driver, Indianapolis
Speedway 3X winner & president,
born in Shelbyville, Indiana]

       
[1909 - Herblock (Herbert Block), editorial cartoonist, born in Chicago]

   
[1915 - Cornel (Cornelius Louis) Wilde, actor, director, born in Manhattan]

      
[1917 - Burr Tillstrom, Emmy Award-winning puppeteer, born in Chicago]

   
[1921 - Yves Montand (Yvo Livi), actor, born in Monsummano Terme, Italy]

   
[1924 - Nipsey Russell, comedian, actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia]

       
[1925 - Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), comedian, born in Mineola, New York]

      
[1931 - Eddie (Edwin Lee) Mathews, Baseball Hall of Famer, born in Texarkana, Texas]

Another Birthday Card

Resolved, That a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months, and that the commander be instructed to cruize eastward, for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike stores and other supplies for our enemies, and for such other purposes as the Congress shall direct.

That a Committee of three be appointed to prepare an estimate of the expence, and lay the same before the Congress, and to contract with proper persons to fit out the vessel.

Resolved, that another vessel be fitted out for the same purposes, and that the said committee report their opinion of a proper vessel, and also an estimate of the expence.

William's Whimsical Words:

What do you suppose the Colonists would have said if the Committee had come back to Congress with one of these?

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