Carpe Diem - June 15th - Seize the Day

Today is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) with just 199 to go.

Let's pause to consider a few things...

A WORD TO THE WISE

"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that will not work." ..... Thomas Edison

A LAUGH A DAY

Light travels at a much faster speed than sound. That is why some people appear bright to you until you hear them speak.

MEMORIES FROM THE MOVIES

Striker: "Surely you can't be serious?"

Rumack: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." ..... Ted Striker & Dr. Rumack (Robert Hays & Leslie Nielsen) in Airplane!

DAILY DAFFYNITION

Amnesia ..... the condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to desire another child.

• 1215 - the Magna Carta is finalized
• 1389 - the Ottoman Empire defeats the Serbs and the Bosnians in the Battle of Kosovo
• 1520 - Pope Leo X threatens Martin Luther with excommunication
• 1667 - the first blood transfusion is given by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys
• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity
• 1775 - George Washington is appointed Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
• 1836 - Arkansas becomes the 25th US State
• 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanizing rubber
• 1846 - the Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the US - Canadian border
• 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established on 200 acres surrounding Arlington, General Robert E. Lee's former residence
• 1877 - Henry Flipper becomes the 1st black man to graduate from the US Military Academy
• 1896 - the deadliest tsunami in Japanese history kills 22,000
• 1904 - a fire aboard the steamboat SS Slocum kills 1,000 in New York City's East River
• 1934 - the Great Smokey Mountains National Park is established
• 1978 - King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who becomes Queen Noor
• 1992 - the US Supreme Court rules it legal for the US to forcibly extradite suspects from other countries, with or without the country's approval
• 1994 - the Vatican and Israel establish full diplomatic relations
• 1996 - the IRA explodes a large bomb in Manchester, England
• 2002 - a large asteroid misses Earth by just 75,000 miles

• 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter
• 1765 - Martin Baum, American businessman
• 1767 - Rachel Jackson, First Lady of the US
• 1805 - William Ogden, American politician
• 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
• 1884 - Harry Langdon, American actor
• 1894 - Robert Bennett, American composer
• 1910 - David Rose, American orchestra leader
• 1916 - Herbert Simon, American economist
• 1917 - Lash LaRue, American actor
• 1932 - Mario Cuomo, American politician
• 1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer
• 1948 - Mike Holmgren, American football coach
• 1949 - Dusty Baker, American baseball player and manager
• 1954 - James Belushi, American actor
• 1958 - Wade Boggs, American baseball player
• 1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress
• 1964 - Courtney Cox, American actress
• 1972 - Andy Pettite, American baseball player
• 1984 - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
• 1990 - Denzel Whitaker, American actor

• 1381 - John Cavendish, Chief Justice of England
• 1560 - William Sommers, court jester for Henry VIII
• 1849 - James Polk, 11th US President
• 1938 - Ernst Kirchner, German painter/printmaker
• 1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor
• 1991 - Happy Chandler, American commissioner of baseball
• 1993 - John Connally, American politician
• 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
• 2007 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist

"Be completely humble and patient, bearing with one another in love." ..... Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)

June 15th bids you adieu, and so do I... Bob