Today in History
April 21, 753 -BC-
Traditional date of the foundation of Rome (they are hoping to finish building it any day now). But since the Gregorian Calendar was just a gleam in Pope Julius eye who knows.
April 21, 1847 -
Lewis Keseberg, the final member of the Donner Party still stranded in the mountains, is escorted to safety by a fourth rescue party. Later accounts hold that Keseberg was discovered "seated, like a ghoul, in the midst of dead bodies, with his face and hands smeared with blood, and a kettle of human flesh boiling over the fire." I guess that soup must have been lip smacking good.
April 21, 1992 -
Convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris consumes two large pizzas, a bucket of fried chicken, and some ice cream on the eve of his execution. Later, before the gas chamber is activated, Harris propounds: "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper."
Make of this what you will that the following people were born today:
Catherina II the Great, writer/empress of Russia (and no she didn't do it with the horses, just the horse men) (1729), Alexandra Mary Windsor II (1926), Iggy Pop [James Newell Osterberg] (1947) , Patti LuPone (1949), Tony Danza (1951) & Robert Smith (1959)
And so it goes
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