Montserrat ~ "St. Brigid's Day" . (Not the world's most 'exciting' Saint.....miracles include taming a Wolf to replace a Chieftains dog!


1790 ~ The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City.


1862 ~ Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.


1884 ~ The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.


1960 ~ Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.


1979 ~ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.


2003 ~ The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind