05/03/10

Lowen dydh sen Piran!

The Persian poet, Nasir Khosrow began a seven year journey in 1046 which he described in Safarnama.  Five civilians were killed by British troops in what is referred to over here as the Boston Massacre in 1770.  The Britannia Bridge opened in 1850.  Paul Okalik was elected to serve as the first Premier of the newly created Canadian territory of Nunavut in 1999.

Born today:  Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Rex Herrison (1908-1990), Samantha Eggar (1939), Murray Head (1946), Clodagh Rodgers (1947), Eddy Grant (1948), Elaine Page (1948) and Craig and Charlie Reid (1962).

For the sake of my great-grandfather, I am morally obligated to tell you that it is St. Piran's Day in Cornwall.  Kernow Kensa.  Kernewek, onen hag oll.  Dydh da.  Denbal ov vy.  (And there's my Cornish exhausted.)