ScottN wrote: 

Truer words.

 Red_Dragon wrote:What an enigma Gorbachev seems, imo, to be.  Personally, I hope history treats him kindly (knowing ALMOST all "world leaders are to some degree, criminals). 

1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England, United Kingdom.

1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.

1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.

1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.

1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

 Proclivities wrote:Waaah!  I was willing to give up the dowry.  Jeez.   

 ScottN wrote: 
Some Ukrainian parents can get pretty picky about that kind of stuff.

 Proclivities wrote:I proposed marriage twenty minutes after she was born.  I told her parents that no dowry was required.

I try to live a good life, bathe frequently, and can put food on the table.  But still, "NO".  I am haunted by that answer. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Leelu Dallas Multipass!

1975:  Milla Jovovich born.
 

 oldviolin wrote: 

whatever floats your boat, Milford

 buzz wrote: 
out of all the days there must have been one day that the earth stood still...or something

 buzz wrote: 
whatever floats your boat, Milford