Tuesday, December 21, 2010   

[Winter Solstice]

[1620 - Mayflower, pilgrims from England, land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts]

   
[1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, statesman, born in London]

       
[1879 - Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili), born in Gori, Georgia]

[1892 - Walter Charles Hagen, golf champion,
born in Rochester, New York]

[1908 - Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver, Jr.,
President NBC-TV, born in Los Angeles]

      
[1940 - Frank Vincent Zappa, musician, songwriter, singer, composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland]

   
[1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner(Flo-Jo), Olympic gold medalist, born in Los Angeles]

   
[1988 - Pan Am World Airways Flight 103 is the target of a terrorist attack over Lockerbie, Scotland]

[1991 - Soviet Union formally ceases to exist, dissolves into Russia and 14 other states]

What a Day

This day in history marks the beginning of an important settlement in what is now our country, the birth of a brutal dictator who murdered millions of his own people and began the Cold War, the disintegration and collapse of the Soviet Union that brought an end to that Cold War, and the emergence of the terrorist threat that now preoccupies our nation and most of the rest of the world.

William's Whimsical Words:

Enough, already!

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