Monday, June 14, 2010

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]

[1864 - Dr. Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist,
pathologist, born in Marktbreit, Bavaria]

[1901 - Hap (Clarence Henry) Day, Hockey Hall-of-Fame
player, coach, manager, born in Owen Sound, Ontario]

   
[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 Hackett McGuire, actress, born in
Omaha, Nebraska]

[1919 - Gene Barry (Eugene Klass), actor, born in New York City]

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

[1929 - Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman), pianist, composer,
born in New York City]

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

[1951 - Univac 1, the world's first commercial computer, is 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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