Thursday
Apr. 29, 1999
As Benefits a Man
Poem: "As Befits a Man," by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems (Vintage Books, 1974).
It's the Feast Day of SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, the patron saint of Italy.
The Nazi concentration camp, DACHAU, was liberated by the U.S. Seventh Army on this day in 1945, liberating nearly 32,000 prisoners.
The anti-war film ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT was premiered on this day in 1929 in New York City.
It's the birthday 100 years ago today, in Washington, D.C., 1899, of EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON, Duke Ellington, big-band leader whose hey-day was in the 1930s and 40s.
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