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Good ol' George Bailey in Frank
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Omar Khayyam (1048; died December 4, 1131) Persian poet and scientist;
The Rubaiyat (
Quatrains)
Bertrand Russell (1872; died February 2, 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and activist;
Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead); "On Denoting";
The Problems of Philosophy;
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays;
What I Believe;
Why I Am Not a Christian;
A History of Western Philosophy; Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Frank Capra (1897; died September 3, 1991) Italian-American film director, producer and writer known for Oscar-winning films like
It Happened One Night,
You Can't Take It With You,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
It's a Wonderful Life.
Meredith Willson (1902; died June 15, 1984) American composer;
The Music Man
Shunryu Suzuki (1904; died December 4, 1971) Japanese Buddhist monk;
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Died on this day:
Gustav Mahler (1911; born July 7, 1860) Austrian composer;
Das Lied von der Erde; nine complete symphonies
William Saroyan (1981; born August 31, 1908) American author of drama (
The Time of Your Life--Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940), novels (
The Human Comedy), short stories
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