April 15, 2022
QUOTE
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
--Keith Richards
BIRTHDAYS
1933 – Roy Clark, Musician and television personality
1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, Actress and producer (Big Minnifield crush growing up)
1940 – Willie Davis, Baseball player and actor
1959 – Emma Thompson, Comedian, author, and screenwriter
1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1990 – Emma Watson, English actress, (the perfect Hermione)
IN MEMORY
1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
1980 – Raymond Bailey, Aactor and soldier
1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician
2018 – R. Lee Ermey, Actor, soldier
IN ON THIS DAY
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.