Friday, June 26, 2009
[1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, USA,
born in Ballston Spa, New York]
[1870 - Atlantic City Boardwalk opens]
[1891 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright,
screenwriter born in Oakland, California]
[1892 - Pearl Buck, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-
winning author, born in Hillsboro, West Virginia]
[1893 - Big Bill Broonzy, blues singer, guitarist,
born in Scott County, Mississippi]
[1904 - Peter Lorre (Laszlo Lowenstein), actor, born in Rozsahegy, Hungary]
[1906 - French Grand Prix, first such race anywhere, staged at Le Mans]
[1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, Olympic HoF athlete, golf pro, born in Port Arthur, Texas]
[1916 - Alex Dreier, reporter, newscaster,
actor, born in Honolulu, Hawaii]
[1918 - US Marine brigade captures Belleau Wood]
[1945 - Fifty nations come to San Francisco for signing of United Nations Charter]
Right to Vote
You are Right to Vote.
Not because it is Duty.
It's a Covenant.
William's Whimsical Words:
One that must be regularly refreshed.
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