17Sep09

"Did you ever hear anything so beautiful?" excalimed the daughter of the house, as she turned a new swing record on the Victrola.
"No," replied her father. "The nearest thing I ever heard to it was when a truck loaded with empty milk cans had a collision with another truck that was losded with hogs."

1920, American Profesional Football Association, first US professional football league, organized, with Jim Thorpe as president, (Renamed the National Football League in 1922.)

1939, The USSR invades Poland.

1957, Sophia Loren weds Carlo Ponti.

1978, Signing of the Camp David Peace Treaties between the US (guarantors for the treaties) Israel and Egypt.

1984 - Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70

1997 - Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84


Quote for the day:

The man boasts only of his ancestors belongs to a family that is better dead than alive.