Monday, April 15, 2013
[1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist, painter, inventor, born in Tuscan town of Vinci]
[1783 - Continental Congress ratifies articles of peace ending Revolutionary War with Britain]
[1843 - Henry James, author, critic, born in New York City]
[1866 - Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker), outlaw, born in Circleville, Utah]
[1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, artist, born in Neosho, Missouri]
[1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee]
[1912 - The British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic]
[1903 - John Williams, Tony Award-winning actor, born in Buckinghamshire, England]
[1917 - Hans Conried, actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland]
[1922 - Harold Lee Washington, Mayor of Chicago, born in Chicago]
[1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, born in New York City]
[1955 - Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois]
[1961 - US Navy launches the first nuclear-powered guided missile frigate, USS Bainbridge(DLGN-25)]
n.b. This is not the Destroyer Bainbridge that was involved in the 2009 dust-up off the horn of Africa.
(US Navy-4, Pirates-0).
Suffer not fools gladly.
Suffer not scoundrels at all.
William's Whimsical Words:
Suffer not.
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