DaddysKat: ... Billy Preston
Dude looks like "Buckwheat"
September 4 247 gone - 118 to go
1241 - Alexander III of Scotland
1557 - Sofie of Mecklenburg - Schwerin ~ Queen of Denmark/Norway
1563 - Wanli ~ Emperor of China
1736 - Robert Raikes of England ~ Sunday School Pioneer
1768 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand ~ French Novelist.....0h-g0tta love Chateaubriand ! makes a vegan think again
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk ~ 1st Lady....Husband President James K Polk is universally included among the great Presidents..always in the top 10, at times as low as 5, and wife Sarah was a big part of it--they worked as a team
1918 - Paul Harvey of Tulsa, Oklahoma ~ Iconic News Broadcaster
~ By the Bye ~
476 ~ Romulas Augustulus is deposed by Odoacer thus ending the Roman Empire in Western Europe
1024 ~ Conrad II is chosen King of Germany
1479 ~ King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as Oueen of Castile
1571 ~ Catholic Rebellion in Scotland
1609 ~ Henry Hudson discovers the Island of Manhattan...a darn fun place to visit, but not to live on
1618 ~ aVaLaNChE!! a biggie in Plurs, Switzerland buries 1,500 alive...none did...
1682 ~ English Astronomer Edmund Halley discovers Halley's Comet....what are the odds ? It happens at times. Like when Lou Gerhig died of Lou Gerhig's ailment..what are the odds ?
1781 ~ Los Angeles is founded
1833 ~ The NY Sun hires 1st paperboy -- 10 year old Barney Flaherty
1862 ~ General "Bobby" Lee invades North with 50,000 Southern Gentlemen
1885 ~ 1st Cafeteria opens
1886 ~ Geronimo surrenders...the end of fightin' Injuns
1888 ~ George Eastman + Camera + rolled film + patent = "Kodak"
1899 ~ Yakutat Bay, Alaska gets it....yep an 8.3...hello, 8.3 ?
~ Bye ~