Friday, March 31, 2017      

[1596 - Rene Descartes, philosopher, born
in La Haye, Touraine, France]

   
[1621 - Andrew Marvell, poet, born in Winestead-in-Holderness,
East Yorkshire, England]

   
[1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, composer, born in Rohrau, Austria]

   
[1809 - Edward Fitzgerald, poet, translator, born in Bredfield House, Suffolk, England]

   
[1809 - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, writer, born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine]

   
[1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry with his Black Ship Squadron negotiates the Treaty of Kanagawa to open up U.S. - Japan trade]

[1889 - The Eiffel Tower is opened in Paris]

   
[1915 - Henry Morgan (Henry Lerner Von Ost, Jr.), comedian, born in New York City]

[1917 - U.S. takes formal possession of the Danish West Indies (which are renamed the Virgin Islands)]

      
[1922 - Richard (Paul) Kiley, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor, born in Chicago]

          
[1927 - Cesar Chavez, labor leader, activist, born in Yuma, Arizona]

[1935 - Judith (Perelman) Rossner, author,
born in Manhattan]

Race Relations

Race relations needn't be so tricky.
Trusting non-brothers is where it gets sticky.
If you treat everyone with respect.
Upon your sincerity 'twill reflect.
When chips are down you know this fact.
You won't have to ask who's got your back.

William's Whimsical Words:

Getting along is only the beginning.

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