1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida.
1792 - Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.
1805 - Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
1872 - Samuel F.B. Morse, developer of the electric telegraph, died in New York at age 80.
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, The world must be made safe for democracy.
1932 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh paid $50,000 ransom in a New York cemetery to a man who promised to return his kidnapped son. The child was found dead the following month.
1974 - French President Georges Pompidou died in Paris.
1982 - Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands from Britain.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering.
2002 - Israel seized control of Bethlehem; Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, beginning a 39-day standoff.
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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