Saturday, July 14, 2012

[1789 - Bastille is stormed; French Revolution begins]

[1860 - Owen Wister, novelist, born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania]

   
[1862 - Florence Bascom, geologist, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts]

   
[1898 - Albert Benjamin 'Happy' Chandler, politician, Major League baseball commissioner, born in Corydon, Kentucky]

[1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum), novelist,
born in San Francisco]

   
[1910 - William Hanna, cartoonist, animator, born in Melrose, New Mexico]

   
[1911 - Terry-Thomas (Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens), actor, comedian, born in North London]

   
[1912 - Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie, folk singer, songwriter, born in Okemah, Oklahoma]

[1913 - Gerald R. Ford, 38th President, born in Omaha, Nebraska]

      
[1917 - Douglas Edwards, journalist, news anchor, TV host, born in Ada, Oklahoma]

      
[1918 - (Ernst) Ingmar Bergman, Academy Award-winning director, born in Uppsala, Sweden]

[1927 - John (William) Chancellor, newscaster, born in Chicago]

   
[1931 - Sir Robert Stephens, actor, born in Bristol, England]

[1945 - [USS South Dakota (BB-57) bombards Japan]

Revolting News

Serfs up, Duke!

William's Whimsical Words:

Live free or die.

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