May 25, 2022
QUOTE
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn’t know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.
--Igor Sikorsky
BIRTHDAYS
1878 – Bill Robinson, Actor and dancer
1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft
1936 – Tom T. Hall, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1926 – Claude Akins, Actor
1939 – Dixie Carter, Actress and singer
1963 – Mike Myers, Actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader
1990 – Vic Tayback, Actor
2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, Actor, comedian, and director
2019 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite
IN ON THIS DAY
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters.