Thought for the Day
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
Tomorrow do thy worst,
For I have lived today.”
Horace
(65-8 B.C.)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: “He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words.” source
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History Today;
- 1714 – People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
- 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
- 1957 – “American Bandstand” premieres
- 1971 – Disney World opens in Orlando
- 2001 U.S.A. Barry Bonds Record Breaking 73 home runs
- 2003 – Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
Birthdays Today;
- 1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian (d. 1952)
- 1931 – Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1984]: Archbishop: 1st black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, S. Africa)
- 1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer
- 1952 – Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation
- 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
- 1964 – Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese singer and actor
Did You Know;
- “Dammit I’m Mad” spelled backward is “Dammit I’m Mad”
