02/03/10

Louis V became King of the Franks in 986.  The first Comintern met in Moscow in 1919.  King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne of Cambodia in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit in 1955.

Born today:  Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Lou Reed (1942), Harry Redknapp (1947), Karen Carpenter (1950-1983) and Daniel Craig (1968).

It is Independence Day in Morocco.