May 22, 2022
QUOTE
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
--T. Boone Pickens
BIRTHDAYS
1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer
1928 – T. Boone Pickens, Businessman
1936 – George H. Heilmeier, Engineer
1938 – Susan Strasberg, Actress
IN MEMORY
337 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor
1885 – Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright
1990 – Rocky Graziano, Boxer
1998 – John Derek, Actor, director, and photographer
IN ON THIS DAY
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins when the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
1866 – Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms.
1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.