May 16

May 16

St Brendan, (Ireland, sailors), St. Homoratus, (bakers, millers), St. John of Nipmuk, (Bohemia, bridges, bridge builders,  Czechoslovakia; invoked against detraction), St. Simon Stock (tanners)

Love a Tree Day, National Sea Monkey Day, Wear Purple for Peace Day

1571- Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, was conceived at 4:37am

1866-Charles Elmer Hires invented rootbeer

1891-George Hormel & Co. introduced Spam

      

Birthdays:

Henry Fonda – 1905

Studs Terkel- 1912

Liberace -1919

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Studs Terkel


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