06Jul09

"I'm glad to find you as you are." said the old friend. "Your great wealth hasn't changed you."
"Well," replied the candid millionaire, "it has changed me in one thing. I'm now eccentric' where I used to be impolite, and 'delightfull witty' when I used to be rude."

1928 Ravel's Bolero is played for the first time.

1946 Sylvester Stallone is born.

1971 Louis Armstrong, King of jazz, dies at 71

1979 General Anastasio Somoza Debayle escapes from Nicaragua racked by civil war.



Quote for the day: There are two kinds of women: The fashionable ones and those who are comfortable.