June 7, 2022
QUOTE
Money won’t buy you happiness, but it’ll pay for the search
--Prince
BIRTHDAYS
1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress
1911 – Brooks Stevens, Engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile
1917 – Dean Martin, Singer, actor, and producer
1940 – Tom Jones, Singer and actor
1958 – Prince, Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor
IN MEMORY
1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor
1937 – Jean Harlow, Actress and singer
1980 – Henry Miller, Novelist and essayist
1992 – Bill France Sr., Race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR
2015 – Christopher Lee, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow, Scotland.
1917 – In the Battle of Messines Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1942 – The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format