06Aug09

Friend---"Why have you the general in such a peculiar pose?"
Sculptor---"You see, it was started as an equestrian statue, and then the committee found they couldn't afford the horse."

1934, US rule in Haiti ends.

1945, The US launch the first bomb on Hiroshima (75,000 deaths)

1978, Pope Paul VI dies and is succeeded by John-Paul I



Quote for the day:
If men have no faith in one another, all of us would have to live within our incomes.