Saturday, June 26, 2010

[1870 - Atlantic City Boardwalk opens]

[1891 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright,
screenwriter born in Oakland, California]

      
[1892 - Pearl S. 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, is 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 the Belleau Wood for the Allies]

[1945 - Fifty nations come to San Francisco for the signing of The 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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