June 2, 2022
QUOTE
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
--Lou Gehrig
BIRTHDAYS
1918 – Ruth Atkinson, Illustrator
1941 – Stacy Keach, Actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, Drummer, songwriter, and a Rolling Stone
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, Composer and conductor
1948 – Jerry Mathers, Actor
IN MEMORY
1941 – Lou Gehrig, Baseball player
1970 – Bruce McLaren, Race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team
1990 – Rex Harrison, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1763 – Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1924 –President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey
1966 – Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.