May 14, 2022
QUOTE
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
--David Byrne
BIRTHDAYS
1771 – Thomas Wedgwood, English photographer
1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Engineer and educator
1942 – Tony Pérez, Cuban-American baseball player and manager
1944 – George Lucas, Director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm
1952 – David Byrne, Singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
IN MEMORY
1919 – Henry J. Heinz, Businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company
1993 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Journalist and publisher
1998 – Frank Sinatra, Singer and actor
2019 – Tim Conway, Actor, writer, and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1607 – English colonists establish “James Fort,” which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1608 – The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
1804 – William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.