A Long Day's Journal Into Night

This Day in History

1846
Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.

1939
Canada declared war on Germany, entering WWII.

1963
Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.

1979
Catherine Ann Allen born.

1988
Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.


I'M FIVE

(sung by Robin)

I'm five
I'm five
I'm a big frog now I'm five
I can dress myself
I don't need Mum to help me anymore
And when I sit in my father's chair
My feet can reach the floor. Almost
I'm five
I'm five
I'm a big frog now I'm five
My mother doesn't spank me just for going without a hat
She knows darn well I'd run away
'Cause I'm too old for that
What does she think I'm three? Huh?
Not me
What does she think I'm four?
I'm more than four
I'm even more than four and a half
I'm five

Next month

Whee! Its m' birfday. You know what I think. 24 is such a great age. First off, it is an even number. It looks nifty. 24 hours in a day. 24 is two dozen. What else? It has a LOT of factors: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12. That is amazing! It IS a factorial (4!). There is even a TV show that is my age.