On this date in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered "a little speech", as he later called it, at the dedication of a military cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Only a few hundred words delivered in only a few minutes.
But the Gettysburg Address became one of the most famous speeches in American history.
Now just to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, it was also on this date but in the year 1975 that one of my favorite movies was first shown in movie theaters.
The great Jack Nicholson won his first Academy Award for his starring role in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
All of which just goes to prove that you'll never know what one finds in these Oddball Observations!
