Tuesday, May 16, 2017
[1717 - Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille]
[1801 - William Seward, New York Governor & Senator, Secretary of State, born in Orange County, New York]
[1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator, writer, editor, born in Billerica, Massachusetts]
[1817 - Steamboat service begins on the Mississippi River]
[1817 - Steamboat service begins on the Mississippi River]
[1905 - Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Grand Island, Nebraska]
[1912 - Studs (Louis) Terkel, writer, storyteller, born in New York City]
[1913 - Woody (Woodrow Charles) Herman, musician, bandleader, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin]
[1918 - (Garrett) Barry Atwater, educator, actor, born in Denver, Colorado]
[1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player, manager, born in Berkeley, California]
[1929 - The First Academy Awards are presented]
[1929 - Betty Carter (Lillie Mae Jones), Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, born in Flint, Michigan]
[1946 - The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opens on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, and runs for 1,147 performances]
[1968 - Donald E. Ballard, Navy Corpsman, receives the Medal of Honor
for heroic action in Quang Tri Province, with a 3rd Marine Division unit]
If survival is Job 1, (and let's face it, it is for most of us most of the time), then making sure you do so without harming any innocent bystanders is Job 2.
William's Whimsical Words:
On rare occasion, the Job 1 imperative is overridden by Job 0. In that case you have someone like Donald Ballard. (please see above)
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