Friday, April 17, 2009
[1790 - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, printer, scientist, writer dies in Philadelphia at age 84]
[1837 - J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan, financier,
born in Hartford, Connecticut]
[1893 - Irene Castle (Foote), dancer, designer, actress,
born in New Rochelle, New York]
[1897 - Thornton Wilder, playwright, author, born in
Madison, Wisconsin]
[1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist, born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine]
[1905 - Arthur Lake (Silverlake), actor, born in Corbin, Kentucky]
[1918 - William Holden, Academy Award-winning actor, born in O'Fallon, Illinois]
[1923 - Harry Reasoner, newsman, born in Dakota City, Iowa]
[1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in the Warner Bros. short Porky's Duck Hunt]
[1961 - Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba begins]
Fathers of Our Nation
Are you filled with a sense of wonder at how this nation came to be born? What unique alignment of the cosmos produced the individuals and the circumstances that gave rise to the modern experiment in democratic government that has so changed the social, political, and economic fabric of this world?
William's Whimsical Words:
Perhaps we should call them the Foundling Fathers.
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