1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted. Ash fallout reached as far as 48 mi away.
1906 - "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
One's bad,
Two's luck,
Three's health,
Four's wealth,
Five's sickness,
Six is death.
DANDELION
Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed.
Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds
that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have.
DEATH
Superstitions about
death
Ghareloo Nuskha for HEART BURN
Add 1 tablespoon mint (pudina) leaves to 1 cup water. Take twice or thrice a day.
To dream of a wast cathedral with its domes rising into space,
denotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and
unhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical;
but if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your
companions the learned and wise.
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