Sunday, June 14, 2009

Flag Day

[1775 - U.S. Army is established by Congressional Resolution]

[1777 - Continental Congress approves design of national flag]

[1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, born in Litchfield, Connecticut]

[1820 - John Bartlett, publisher, editor,
born in Plymouth, Massachusetts]

[1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist,
born in New York City]

[1909 - Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives, folk singer,
Academy Award-winning actor,
born in Hunt City, Illinois]

[1916 - Dorothy McGuire, actress, born in Omaha, Nebraska]

[1925 - Pierre Salinger, JFK press secretary,
Senator, writer, born in San Francisco]

[1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Naval Expansion Act]

[1951 - Univac 1, world's first commercial computer, unveiled in Washington, DC]

[1963 - Duke Snider hits his 400th home run]

Poorwilliam's Second Law of Social Engineering

An organization at rest is dead, but it may be decades before anyone notices; thus it will continue to consume resources at the same rate (or greater) as it did before it lost track of its purpose.

William's Whimsical Words:

This is also known as the Law of Dissipation of Energy.

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