[Mid] 12 / 6 -- Have a nice day

Happy birthday to England's King Henry VI [1421] and Ital diplomat & writer
Baldassare Castiglione [1478, but see also below]

Other notable occurrences on this date in history include:
-- the death of St. Nicholas [342 AD -- so why is he so often shown wearing a
red union suit?... you may well ask]
-- The Mongols take Kiev [1240] and taunt the cowards by inventing a luncheon
entree
-- Thomas Aquinas ceases writing [1323; perhaps he was finished; possibly just
his toner cartridge needed replacement]
-- John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall of Leicester undertake the murder of
England's King Edward II by witchcraft [1352; it probably worked as well as
when witches raised the Pentagon off its foundations in 1968]
-- Death of Castilglione [1475; possible premiere of the "dirge" version of
the birthday song]
-- Columbus lands on Haiti/Santo Domingo [1492; insert smartaleck reference
here, esp. voodoo or zombi]

...and it's too bad, in a way, that we limit ourselves in historical outlook:
In 1822, John Eberhard built the first large scale pencil factory in US, and
if that's not worth of celebration, what is? It's a portable, wireless,
information input and storage device -- and made of renewable, recyclable
materials, no less!

[ Commemorative data cribbed as usual from The Outlaw Press...
http://www.outlawpress.com/today.html -- wiseacre comments at no additional
charge]

Sonya of Prague, looking for good news and knocking on wood ;-)
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Received on Sat Dec 6 12:30:03 1997