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Today I got my piano tuned. That is a significant event.

 

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Abandoning this thread on account of Mozart's quote (above a few posts) just made me reluctant to finish eating the apple in my hand...
...and then we start up on Mandela's death to make matters worse. There was once a saying on a picture that went something along the lines of: One thing money can't buy is good words on your epitaph.

I think I'll go back to tissue therapy and genetics now.

 

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Deaths

1889 Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans. He was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1949 Huddie William Ledbetter - Leadbelly
1969 Meredith Hunter - stabbed on stage at the Altamont free concert during a Rolling Stones performance.

Births

1896 - Lyricist Ira Gershwin in New York City.

Other News

1917 - Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
1921 - The Catholic Irish Free State was created as a self-governing dominion of Britain when an Anglo-Irish treaty was signed.
1923 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to give a presidential address that was broadcast on radio.

A new trend? The Death Section.