Wednesday
Jan. 14, 1998
Sonnet II
Today's Reading: "Sonnet II" by Edna St. Vincent Millay from COLLECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, published by Harper & Row.
It's the birthday of theologist, philosopher and medical missionary Albert Schweitzer, born in Kayserberg, Alsace, in 1875.
Hugh Lofting, author of the Dr. Doolittle books, was born on this day in England, 1886.
Novelist John Dos Passos (USA) was born on this day in Chicago in 1896.
Soldier Benedict Arnold, remembered for his traitorous activities for the British, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1741.
Film director, producer and screenwriter Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York, in 1892.
Civil rights activist Julian Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1940.
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