On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which became one of the
best-loved movies in history, opened in theaters around the U.S.
Based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the film starred Judy Garland as
the young Kansas farm girl Dorothy.
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United
States and England, British troops entered Washington, D.C.
and burned the White House in retaliation for the American
attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.
When the British arrived at the White House, they found that
President James Madison and his first lady Dolley (below)
had already fled to safety in Maryland.
Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover
food from the White House scullery using White House
dishes and silver before ransacking the presidential
mansion and setting it ablaze.
Federic Arnold (1922 – 2018)
Fredric Arnold was a "reluctant warrior," creative dynamo and
decorated World War II combat pilot.
He miraculously survived 50 missions of flying P-38 Lightning
warplanes over North Africa and Europe.
The death he witnessed and inflicted in war was in deep contrast
with the mild-mannered child prodigy artist from Chicago who
spent the rest of his life as a creator: drawing, writing, acting
and inventing.
Among other creative achievements, Arnold patented the
aluminum-and-nylon folding beach chair, so familiar to
summertime sand, surf, backyards and barbecues across
the United States.
"Portable and easy to store, the American-style Lawn Chair
is the ultimate symbol of the ideal summer day," Phaidon
Press wrote in its 2018 coffee-table tome, "Chair: 500
Designs That Matter."
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John Joseph "Jack" Geoghan (left ) (June 4, 1935 – August 23, 2003)
was an American serial child rapist and Catholic priest assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. He was reassigned to several parish posts involving interaction with
children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia.
Geoghan was convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in
2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center,
a maximum security prison.
Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce
(above right) an inmate serving a life sentence.
