19 October 2009

Daily Chat 19/10/09



The Vandals took Carthage in 439.  John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1789 and the First Battle of Ypres began in 1914.

Born today:  John leCarré (1931), Michael Gambon (1940), Peter Tosh (1944-1987), Sam Allardyce (1954) and Amy Carter (1967).

It is Constitution Day in Niue.

Today's image has squat to do with any of today's events.  It is a view of the rue Vavin in Paris from a window of the Pension Ladagnous.  I'm a bit freaked out to have found this shot, because it looks like it might be taken from the window of the very same room that I stayed in when I lived there in 1980.  This photo was taken in 2005.