Lisa M Potts: On This Day

I haven't done one of these posts in a while so I thought I'd share some interesting things I dug up.

1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax, to which I say BOO, HISS.

1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind". Well deserved, in my opinion.

1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician/writer (Prince) was born.

1926 - Napoleon Victor Bonaparte, Prince, died at the age of 63.

1971 - National Public Radio broadcast for the first time.

1991 - 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke

And in honor of the Kentucky Derby coming up on Saturday...

On May 3, 1986, 54-year-old Willie Shoemaker, aboard 18/1 shot Ferdinand, becomes the oldest jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby. The victory was just one of Shoemaker’s 8,833 wins, a record that stood until 1999, when it was broken by Laffit Pincay.

I hope you've enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. Until next time, happy writing!

Truman Capote, the author of the true-crime novel In Cold Blood, died at age fifty-nine in Los Angeles.

While researching the book, he traveled to Kansas with his childhood friend, Harper Lee, who is the author of my favorite book, To Kill A Mockingbird. He also wrote the novella "Breakfast At Tiffiany's" among many others.

He died of liver disease in 1984 at the home of Joanna Carson, the fourth wife of talk-show host Johnny Carson.

On a lighter note, there are also some notable birthdays today. Say what? James Bond is eighty?