Wednesday, August 05, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

1864: Union Adm. David Farragut ignores warnings, supposedly crying, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” as he leads his fleet into Mobile Bay.

1924: Harold Gray’s comic Little Orphan Annie makes its debut, marking the birth of one of America’s favorite little girls.

1962: Three days before she is to remarry Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bedroom. She was 36
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