Thursday, September 30, 2010

Almanac of Absurdities for Sept. 30 2010

On this day in 1791, Mozart’s last opera “The Magic Flute” opens in Vienna. In 1888 on this day, Prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found dead in London’s Whitechapel District, the work of Jack The Ripper. In 1955, 24 year old actor James Dean, driving a Porsche 550 Spyder, fatally collides with a car driven by a Cal Poly student near Paso Robles, CA.

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