Straddlebug || Today

Birthdays
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1921 - Jim McKay
1936 - Jim Henson
1942 - Linda McCartney
1755 - John Marshall

Quote
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
-- Franklin P. Jonas

History
1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game for the Yankees.

Events
79 A.D Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy covering the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae in Lava and ash.
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