Birthday's:
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797), lead singer of the punk band The Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten (1956), and musician Justin Timberlake (1981).
In 1919 a boy was born in Cairo, Georgia who had no idea that he would later become the First African-American to play professional baseball for the Brooklyn/ Los Angeles Dodgers. That boy was Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson.
1606: Guy Fawkes was executed in London
1943: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad (now Volgograd), his troops surrendering tow days later.
1958: Explorer 1 was the first artificial space satellite orbited by the United States, marking the country's entry into the space race.
1966: The Soviets launched Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon.
1977: The Pompidou Centre, a French national cultural centre named for former president Georges Pompidou, opened in Paris.
2001: Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing, in which 270 people were killed; in 2009 the Scottish government released Megrahi from prison after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Bear in Mind
By John Martin
A bear is chasing me through a meadow
and I'm running as fast as I can but
he's gaining on me-it seems
he's always gaining on me.
I'm running and running but also
thinking I should just
turn around and say,
"Stop it! Stop chasing me. We both
know you aren't going to catch me.
All you can ever do is chase me. So.
think about it-why bother?"
The bear does stop,
and he sits on his haunches and thinks,
or seems to think. And then
the bear says to me,
"I have to chase you, you know
that. Or you should. And, sure,
we both know I'll never catch you.
So, why not give us both a break and
just stop thinking about me?"
But, with that said, he gets back on four feet,
sticks his long pink tongue out, licks down
both sides of his snout, Then he sighs, looks
behind himself, then at me and says, "Okay,
ready when you are."
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