ASSOCIATED PRESSOn this date in: 1789: Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: ???In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.???1849: Voters in California ratify the state???s original constitution.1909: Two hundred fifty-nine men and boys are killed when fire erupts inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill.1927: The Holland Tunnel opens to the