Straddlebug || Today

Birthdays
1834 - James Whistler
1920 - David Brinkley
1926 - Fred Gwynne
1943 - Arthur Ashe
1947 - Arlo Guthrie

Quote
Never eat anything you can't pronounce.
-- Erma Bombeck

History
1942 - Allied troops invade Sicily.
1958 - Robert Earl Hughes of Monticello, Illinios died. At the time he weighed approximentaly half a ton, and was burie din a piano case.

Events