Today in History:
1846 - Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium

A Saint's Feast Day:  St. Frrancis de Morales

Dominican martyr of Japan. A native of Madrid, Spain, he served in the Dominican mission in Satsuma, Japan, for two decades. In 1608, he went to Fushima and in 1614 to Nagasaki. He was burned alive with Blessed Charles Spinola and companions. Francis was beatified in 1867.  (catholic.org)


Daily Quotes:

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." -Plato

"There is danger from all men.  The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." -John Adams