Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Flag Day
[1775 - The U.S. Army is established by Congressional Resolution]
[1777 - The Continental Congress approves the design of our 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]
[1919 - Samuel "Sam" Wanamaker, actor, director, producer, born in Chicago]
[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]
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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