Tuesday, April 4, 2017

[1821 - Linus Yale, Jr., engineer, locksmith,
inventor, born in Salisbury, New York]

[1873 - Carrie S. Burnham argues for her right to vote in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (She lost)]

[1895 - Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman), dance teacher, businessman, born in Galicia, Austria-Hungary]

[1906 - John Cameron Swayze, newsman, born in Wichita, Kansas]

[1914 - Frances (Newbern) Langford, singer, born in Lakeland, Florida]

[1915 - Muddy Waters, blues singer, guitarist, born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi]

[1922 - Elmer Bernstein, Academy Award-winning composer, conductor, born in New York City]

[1923 - Dorothy Hart, model, actress, born in Cleveland, Ohio]

[1924 - Gil Hodges, Brooklyn Dodger first baseman, born in Princeton, Indiana]

[1932 - Anthony Perkins, actor, born in New York City]

[1938 - Angelo (Bartlett) Giamatti, baseball commissioner, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

[1939 - Linda Darnell, actress, born in Dallas, Texas]

[1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is established]
It can be difficult to come to terms with the realization that you aren't a Mozart, and that it is good enough to just try to be a Salieri.