This Day in History

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

 Mary Queen of Scots

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1542 > Mary Queen of Scots is born. 1775 > Americans begin siege of Quebec. 1863 > Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. 1894 > James Thurber is born. 1914 > The Battle of the Falkland Islands begins. 1941 > Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan. 1966 > North Vietnam rejects Johnson's prisoner exchange proposal. 1969 > Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending. 1980 > John Lennon is assassinated in New York City.