April 4
I salute the "Crusher" & "The Star". It is nice to see that some actually read this. Thanks!
1939 - JoAnne Carner, "Big Mama" LPGA
1962 - Sherrin Smyers, LPGA via Newcastle, Australia
188 - Caracall {Marcus Aureiius Antoniius} Roman Emperor
1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer
1772 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian Founder of Breslov Hesidut
1792 - Thaddaus Stephens, US radical congressional leader
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal
1821 - Linus Yale, inventor of the Yale cylinder lock
1853 - Tad Lincoln, son of honest Abe
1875 - Jozaf Szule,Composer{free starter balls to anyone who can say the name correctly}
1888 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Great with more doubles than Pete Rose
1895 - Arthur Murray, name any dance step, and baby, he could dance it
and
in 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star added for every new state of the union. QUESTION? What do the 13 stripes and the red and white mean? anybody? anybody?
1841 - President William Henry Harrison dropped quite dead ( we are talkin' WAY DEAD) of pneumonia, one month after his inaugual speech that was done outside in cold, sleet ridden weather without any sissy scarf or intelligent clothing and blabbered on for 3 hours to become the first U.S. chief executive to die in office
1850 - Los Angeles was incorporated
1859 - "Dixie" was performed in NYC
in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis
for those to whom it applies...TGIF