Well, well --- Our own David Fraenkel, noted for excellent play and gracious commentary, celebrates 3 years with WGT...C00L
September 7 --- 250 days sold, 115 days open to buy...price ? Gratis to a degree
786 - Saga ~ 52nd Emperor of Japan
1471 - Frederik I ~ King of Denmark / Norway
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I ~ Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn -- amazing pedigree
1683 - Mary Anne of Austria ~ Queen consort of Portugal
1817 - Louise of Hesse-Kassel ~ Queen of Denmark
1860 - Grandma Moses ~ Painter...any good ? Try buying any of her works
1885 - Harry Sinclair Lewis ~ Writer -- earned the Nobel
~ By the Bye ~
1251 BC ~ A solar eclipse on this date may mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece
1497 ~ A sailor named Perkin Warbeck becomes King Richard IV
1813 ~ "Uncle Sam" 1st used to refer to th US
1825 ~ The Marquis de Lafayette, French Hero of the American Revolution, bids farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House. He had likewise done so with Thomas Jefferson, days earlier, at Monticello
1860 ~ Excursion Steamer "Lady Elgin" goes down in Lake Michigan and does the job on 340 non-swimmers
!871 ~ Yep...then at the Bay of Biscay, the "HMS Captain" takes it in the shorts and capsizes to gather 500 more who couldn't swim a lick
1876 ~ A Bank Robbery by the combo of the James & Younger gangs fails; sending them to the Graybar Hotel
1892 ~ James Corbett KO's John L Sullivan in 21 rounds
1907 ~ The very toney Cliff House Restaurant in 'Frisco' is destroyed by a naughty fire
~ Happiness to All ~