Monday
Jun. 17, 1996
With Music Strong I Come
Today's Reading: "With Music Strong I Come" by Walt Whitman from LEAVES OF GRASS.
It was on this day in 1579 that Sir Francis Drake anchored his ship in San Francisco Bay.
Clergyman John Wesley, founder of Methodism, was born in Epworth, England, 1703.
The second battle of the Revolutionary War was fought on this day in 1775.
James Weldon Johnson was born on this day in 1871.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey (A BELL FOR ADANO) was born in Tientstin, China in 1914.
It was on this day in 1972 that Washington D.C. police arrested five men at the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®