April 25, 2022
QUOTE
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.
--Douglas Adams
BIRTHDAYS
1854 – Charles Sumner Tainter, Engineer and inventor
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, Singer
1940 – Al Pacino, Actor and director
1964 – Hank Azaria, Actor, voice artist, comedian and producer
1969 – Joe Buck, Sportscaster
IN MEMORY
1243 – Boniface of Valperga, Bishop
1995 – Art Fleming, Game show host
1995 – Ginger Rogers, Actress, singer, and dancer
2009 – Bea Arthur, Actress and singer
IN ON THIS DAY
1607 – In the Eighty Years’ War the Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1862 – Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.