Whoo-Who!!! Tim McGraw!!! he could 'do' me without much effort! ...if I were that way, and I didn't obey the decalogue....I never heard of Frank Beard, but my Father claims he was a "stick !"
April 2
1360 - Yongle ~ Emperor of China
1451 - Rene II ~ Duke of Lorraine
1458 - Leonor of Viseu ~ Queen of Portugal
1729 - Catherine the Great ~ Empress of Russia...Jefferson spoke well of her
1737 - William Petty ~ Prime Minister of United Kingdom
1740 - Elias Boudinot ~ lawyer, patriot, founder of American Biblical Sociaty
1750 - John Andre ~ British Army officer of Revolutionary War, an unlucky spy caught by Washington with important information implimenting Benedict Arnold as a traitor. Andre was hanged, he was about 20 years old and befriended A. Hamilton, Washington's aide'de'camp, while held captive. Hamilton was sad but accepted this harsh reality of war
1779 - John Galt ~ Scotland novelist...not Rands 'Gault' of "Atlas" fame
1810 - Leo XIII ~ Roman Catholic Pope # 257
1837 - Henry Robert ~ Parliamentarian who wrote "Robert's Rules of Order"
1844 - Elijah McCoy ~ Black inventor with over 50 patents
1869 - Tyrone Power SR ~ Actor, London England
1885 - Hedda Hopper ~ American gossip columnist
1892 - Manfred von Richthofen ~ The Red Baron ~ German WWI fighter Ace
1896 - Helen of Greece & Denmark ~ Queen of Romania
~ Plus ~
in 1519, Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France, at age 67
in 1863, Confedrate General, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidently wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va; he died eight days later
in 1890, Oklahoma Territory was organized
in 1908 a song was published that makes a request that is odd to me because I only sing it while I'm already there...Perhaps Sister Kat will explain....
TGIF ~