Thursday
May 2, 1996
Today's Reading: "Film Noir" by Nicholas Christopher from A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF BUTTERFLIES, published by Viking Penguin
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival gets underway in Winchester, Virginia.
Composer Pietro Allesandro Gaspare Scarlatti was born in Sicily today in 1660.
It's the birthday of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, born in Stettin, Russia in 1729.
Henry M. Robert, who wrote ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, was born on this day in 1837.
Lyricist Lorenz Hart of Rodgers & Hart was born in New York City in 1895.
Writer W.J. Cash, author of THE MIND OF THE SOUTH, was born in Gaffney, South Carolina in 1900.
It's the birthday of pediatrician Benjamin Spock, born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1903.
Serge Prokofiev's PETER AND THE WOLF premiered in Moscow in 1936.
Today in 1941 the Federal Communications Commission approved the regular scheduling of commercial television broadcasts.
Ball player Stan Musial set a major-league record for home runs in 1954 when he hit five of them against the New York Giants in St. Louis.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®