China ~ First day of the "Year of the Monkey"!!


1901 ~ Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).


1905 ~ 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg.


1938 ~ Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.


1973 ~ The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade.


1973 ~ (also today!!) Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64.


1997 ~ The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.


2002 ~ Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.




Hey guys..... anybody else got any interesting "daily" facts to post? I just LOVE all this stuff....... I can even remember some of it, when I "need" too!!!

DM

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Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind