Saturday, June 4, 2011
[1070 - Roquefort cheese is created in a
smelly cave near Roquefort, France]
[1805 - Tripoli concludes a peace with the USA in their war over payment of Barbary Pirate tribute (. . . to the shores of Tripoli)]
[1908 - Rosalind Russell, actress, born in Waterbury, Connecticut]
[1910 - Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, engineer, inventor of the hovercraft, born in Cambridge, United Kingdom]
[1917 - Charles Collingwood, journalist, born in Three Rivers, Michigan]
[1917 - Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller), NY Metropolitan Opera baritone, born in Brooklyn]
[1924 - (William) Dennis Weaver, actor, environmentalist, born in Joplin, Missouri]
[1937 - Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta), singer, born in San Benito, Texas]
[1942 - The Battle of Midway begins]
[1964 - Sandy Koufax pitches his third career no-hitter]
[1989 - Chinese troops shoot hundreds of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing]
What is Life about?
You say it is Quality.
Which of these came first?
William's Whimsical Words:
The chicken or the egg?
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