May 23, 2022
QUOTE
Blunders rarely travel alone.
--Anatoly Karpov
BIRTHDAYS
1910 – Scatman Crothers, Actor and comedian
1933 – Joan Collins, Actress
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1954 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Boxer and actor
1958 – Drew Carey, Actor, game show host, and entrepreneur
IN MEMORY
1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate
1868 – Kit Carson, Frontiersman, General
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, Founded the Standard Oil Company
2017 – Roger Moore, English actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne.
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution becoming the eighth American state.
1846 – Mexican President Mariano Paredes unofficially declares war on the United States.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1934 –Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Louisiana.