June 3, 2022
QUOTE
What you are thinking is what you are becoming.
--Muhammad Ali
BIRTHDAYS
1808 – Jefferson Davis, Colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America
1924 – Jimmy Rogers, Singer and guitarist
1925 – Tony Curtis, Actor
IN MEMORY
1657 – William Harvey, English physician and academic
2001 – Anthony Quinn, Actor and producer
2009 – David Carradine, Actor
2011 – James Arness, Actor and producer
2016 – Muhammad Ali, Boxer
IN ON THIS DAY
1098 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today’s Turkey).
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1940 – The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the waters.