Thought for the Day
“Be yourself;
everyone else is already taken.”
~ Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
An Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigramsand plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. Source | Society UK | More
Happy Birthday;
- 1713 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
- 1911 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Yves Montand, Italian singer and actor (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Moturu Udayam, Indian woman’s activist (d. 2002)
1925 – Margaret Thatcher, English politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman (nicknamed the “Iron Lady”), to ever have held the post.- 1941 – Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 1945 – Christophe, French singer
Viedo Spotlight: Happy Birthday Lenny Bruce
- 1925 – Lenny Bruce, was an American comedian, social critic and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style, dangerous and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, and sex. His trial for obscenity, in which he was eventually found not guilty, is seen as a landmark trial for freedom of speech.
History Today;
Whirlpool Galaxy
- 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. It was not until 1845 that the Whirlpool became the first galaxy to be recognized as a spiral. more
- 1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children’s literature, makes his debut.
- 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Mobility) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1988 – The British Government lost its battle to stop the publication of the controversial book Spy Catcher, written by a former secret service agent .
- 1999 – America became the first country to reject the 154 nation Nuclear test ban treaty with a vote of 51-48 in The US Senate . Most of the countries who signed the agreement do not have Nuclear capabilities so have nothing to lose and everything to gain by banning nuclear testing .
Word for the Day: schmuck
- US slang; a stupid or contemptible person, an idiot
- German; decoration or adornment
- Yiddish; that portion of the penis cut away at circumcision. Ouch!
Example sentence;
- If he weren’t such a schmuck I’d feel sorry for him.
- After it’s all said and done we’re all just a bunch of schmucks.
Did You know?
- 1961 Los Angeles California, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying the word schmuck? source
