June 15, 2022
QUOTE
I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
--Waylon Jennings
BIRTHDAYS
1937 – Waylon Jennings, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Harry Nilsson, Singer-songwriter
1949 – Jim Varney, Actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1954 – Jim Belushi, Actor
IN MEMORY
1993 – James Hunt, English racing driver and sportscaster
2014 – Casey Kasem, Radio host, producer, , co-created American Top 40
2014 – Daniel Keyes, Short story writer and novelist
2018 – Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Blues guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
1607 – Colonists finished building James’s Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery.