"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

~~ Samuel Goldwyn













R.I.P This date: 1972 Jackie Robinson

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Born this date: 1925 Johnny Carson

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Feast of No Excuse For a Feast Day

Born this date: 1911 Will Rogers Jr

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Happy Birthday: 1961 Wynton Marsalis

















R.I.P.: 1931 Thomas Alva Edison














1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.

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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ~~Nikola Tesla












Born this date: 1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel

Butte, Montana boy and distant relative.

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National "Grouch" Day.
(how does a grouch celebrate?)

Born this date: 1858 John L Sullivan




















Executed this date: Mata Hari

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Born this date: 1890 Dwight D Eisenhower


















'R.I.P. This date:
1990 Leonard Bernstein














1066 (and all that)

Battle of Hastings

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