Saturday - July 24, 2004
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Quote of the Day"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!" anonymous
On This Day in History
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1870 1st trans-US rail service begins
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1903 First Ford Model A Goes Home
The first two-cylinder Ford Model A was delivered to its owner, Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, on this day in 1903. The Model A was the result of a partnership between Henry Ford and Detroit coal merchant Alexander Malcomson. Ford's company grew quickly, but it wasn't until the release of the Model T that Ford took the position of our nation's largest carmaker. The Model T kept Ford number one in the industry until production was stopped in 1927, and Ford relinquished its place to Chevrolet.
1901 O. Henry is released from prison
William Sydney Porter, otherwise known as O. Henry, is released from prison on this day, after serving three years in jail for embezzlement from a bank in Austin, Texas.
To escape imprisonment, Porter had fled the authorities and hidden in Honduras, but returned when his wife, still in the U.S., was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He went to jail and began writing stories to support his young daughter while he was in prison.
After his release, Porter moved to New York and worked for New York World, writing one short story a week from 1903 to 1906. In 1904, his first story collection, Cabbages and Kings, was published. His second, The Four Million (1906), contained one of his most beloved stories, The Gift of the Magi, about a poor couple who each sacrifice their most valuable possession to buy a gift for the other.
He specialized in stories about everyday people, often ending with an unexpected twist. Despite the enormous popularity of the nearly 300 stories he published, he led a difficult life, struggling with financial problems and alcoholism until his death in 1910
Today's Birthdays
1783 Simon Bolivar freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1802 Alexandre Dumas France, author (3 Musketeers)
1898 Amelia Earhart into the wild blue yonder
1951 Lynda Carter (actress)
1970 Jennifer Lopez (singer, actress)
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
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