Sunday, April 15, 2007

Cause Betty asked for it

January 4, 1948

Births

1948 – Fleta Aday was born

1948 – James Reed was born

1779 – Clarissa Dewey was born
1896 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
And I like this one
1900 - James Bond,


Events
1948 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
This is interesting
1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.



Deaths
1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)

1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)

And I like this one
1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)

But, I am not tagging anyone. I do not have 5 friends.

3 comments:

Sister--Helen said...

Well sure you do Fleta...Lane, Emmie, Robert, Hannah, and Favorite Daughter...

Anonymous said...

Yes, you do have 5 friends. Sis 3
one of them.

Erin said...

i'm a friend.... but i'm not doing the tag. i'm too lazy and my metal detector is at the post office. i must pick it up!