Saturday, September 4, 2010
Almanac of Absurdities for September 4, 2010
On this day in 1781, 44 Spanish Settlers marked the founding of The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola, but half of them left in the 7th Inning. They later shortened the name of the village to “Los Angeles”. Appropriately enough, the Ford Motor Company introduced it’s revolutionary new Auto Line “Edsel” on this day in 1957. Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, died on this day in 1588.
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