Wednesday, August 03, 2011

August 3, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries


August 3, 1963
Saturday, fair in am, becoming cloudy in afternoon and hard thunder shower and rain at night. Carol came home from camp.
Comment:  Not much going on except the weather.  On this day in history:  

1914Germany declared war on France.
1923Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1943Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1949The National Basketball Association was formed.

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You're always young in your mind it is said, No matter the face in the mirror, That you see with surprise then say to yourself, "What is that old man doing here?"