Wednesday, September 15, 2010
[1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist, born in
Burlington, New Jersey]
[1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President, Supreme Court Chief
Justice, born in Cincinnati, Ohio]
[1889 - Robert Benchley, humorist, author, born in Worcester, Massachusetts]
[1890 - Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller),
writer, born in Torquay, Devon, England]
[1903 - Roy Claxton Acuff, King of Country Music, Country Music Hall of Famer, born in Maynardville, Tennessee]
[1908 - Penny Singleton (Dorothy McNulty),
actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1924 - (Julius) Nipsey Russell, comedian,
actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia]
[1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel physicist, born in New York City]
[1935 - Nuremberg Laws are enacted in Nazi Germany]
[1940 - Merlin Jay Olsen, Pro Football Hall of Famer, sportscaster, actor, born in Logan, Utah]
[1950 - U.N. forces make amphibious landings at Inchon, South Korea]
[1963 - Four Black children are killed by a KKK bomb at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,
Birmingham, Alabama, during Sunday services]
Endangered Species
It's true; it's true.
It's never been truer.
There are those who talk,
And then there's the Doer.
William's Whimsical Words:
It may only take one to get it done
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