May 19, 2022
QUOTE
Meet the new boss – same as the old boss
--Pete Townshend
BIRTHDAYS
1795 – Johns Hopkins, Businessman and philanthropist
1891 – Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot
1897 – Frank Luke, American lieutenant and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
1945 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor
IN MEMORY
1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 37th First Lady of the United States
2014 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
2015 – Happy Rockefeller, Philanthropist, socialite
2021 – Paul Mooney, Comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1848 – Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15,000,000.
1883 – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.