Sunday, April 17, 2011
[1790 - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, printer, scientist,
writer dies in Philadelphia at age 84]
[1823 - Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, newspaper publisher, lawyer, judge, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1837 - J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan, financier,
born in Hartford, Connecticut]
[1885 - Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke), author, born in Rungsted, Denmark]
[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 (Franklin Beedle), Academy Award-winning
actor, born in O'Fallon, Illinois]
[1918 - Anne Shirley (Dawn Evelyeen Paris),
actress, born in New York City]
[1923 - Harry Reasoner, newsman, born in
Dakota City, Iowa]
[1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in Warner
Brothers short Porky's Duck Hunt]
[1961 - Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba begins]
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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