04-15-2005, 03:33 AM
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Loungin' Around
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: West Coast
Posts: 30,587
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April 15th
1452 ~ Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci
1707 ~ Birthday of Leonhard Euler, Mathematician.
1802 ~ William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to write I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1920 ~ Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor & Violinist.
1924 ~ Rand McNally published its first road atlas.
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.
1980 ~ Death of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Writer.
1994 ~ Globalization: Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and created the World Trade Organization.
1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.
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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
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