April 12, 2022
QUOTE
Sometimes you’re the windshield; sometimes you’re the bug.
--Mark Knopfler
BIRTHDAYS
1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., Pilot and general
1932 – Tiny Tim, Singer and ukulele player
1946 – Ed O’Neill, Actor and comedian
1947 – Tom Clancy, Historian and author
1947 – David Letterman, Comedian and talk show host
1962 – Carlos Sainz, Spanish racing driver
IN MEMORY
1912 – Clara Barton, Nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
1981 – Joe Louis, Boxer and wrestler
1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxer
1999 – Boxcar Willie, Singer-songwriter
2017 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1861 – The Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1865 – Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205.
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office.
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place.