Almanac of Absurdities for 10/9/10

“When I Cannot Sing My Heart, I Can Only Speak My Mind.” On this date in 1940, in the middle of an Air Raid, John Winston Lennon was born at Liverpool Maternity Hospital on Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia and Alfred Lennon. He was named for his Paternal Grandfather John “Jack” Lennon, and for Winston Churchill. The rest you know. Imagine.