DaddysKat:Pullitzer Prize winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945 (killed in combat).
So very classy ! Thanks Kat
August 4 ~ Attention !!! Our Beloved Frapp is 63 years young today..Please join me & Kat in wishing Francois Happy Birthday! ~
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria
1591 - Urban VII ~ Pope
1604 - Francois Hedelin ~ abbe d'Aubigac ~ French writer
1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte ~ Inventor of the modern pencil
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelly ~ English poet ~
He wrote these words to Mary Godwin, October 28th, 1814 "...my mind without you is dead & cold as the dark midnight river when the moon is down..." They had eloped in July, and proceeded to travel around Europe, but returned to London in financial straits. Shelly was forced to go into hiding to avoid his creditors and the couple could meet only secretly.
1821 - Louis Vuitton ~ Anchay, France - Leather Goods ?...HA! Leather Greats and Luggage to appreciate and adore
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ~ Consort of King George VI and Queen Mother of current Queen Elizabeth II
1901 - Satchmo
~ Bye the Bye ~
1181 ~ EXPLOSION!! on grandest of scale, yep, Supernova seen in Cassiopia...I want to see one...but not our star, the Sun...duh
1578 ~ Battle of Alcazarquivir - Moroccans defeat Portugese ~ 10,000+ bid "so long"
1666 ~ It's a Trio ! A naughty Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher and 1,000's are "Blowin in the Wind"
1693 ~ Traditional invention date of.....YUM!!! ~ Dom Perignon ~
1753 ~ George Washington becomes a master mason
1862 ~ US Government collects it's 1st Income Tax --- aint that just peachy keen ?
1892 ~ Sunday School Teacher, Lizzie Borden is arrested in Fall River, Mass
1944 ~ 15 year old Anne Frank is arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. Sent to Bergen-Belsen, she and sister Margot died the following year. Her diary still lives....
~ Bless you all ~