April 28th, 2010
1758 – James Monroe, the fifth US President is born. Little known fact about James; he invented the Monroe piercing.
Sadly, cool books about old, rich white dudes are rarely interesting.
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1926 – Author Harper Lee is born.
F LEE
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1967 – Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the Army, sticks it to the man.
B ALI
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2003 – Apple Computer Inc. launches the iTunes store. Wow, has it been seven years?!
811 DYL
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Unfortunately, I have to agree that books about old, rich, white dudes are rarely interesting, but two summers ago I read the biography entitled The Three Roosevelts and found it to be very interesting. Admittedly, only two are dudes, one is a dudette, but what an impact they had on America!