April 16, 2022
QUOTE
I’m still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
--Keith Moon
BIRTHDAYS
1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
1927 – Edie Adams, Actress and singer
1943 – Lonesome Dave Peverett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Bill Belichick, Football player and coach
1965 – Jon Cryer, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist
1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and engineer
2002 – Robert Urich, Actor
2013 – Pat Summerall, Football player and sportscaster
2018 – Harry Anderson, Actor and magician
IN ON THIS DAY
1863 –Gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of LSD.
1947 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.