08 September 1429: Paris attacked by Joan of Arc
08 September 1935: Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish,” was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
08 September 1944: V-2 Rocket Hits London
08 September 1952: Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea was published.
08 September 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
- Garry Shandling
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover; if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
- Joseph Brodsky
07 September 1998: Google, Inc. Founded
