June 20, 2022
QUOTE
No soldier ever really survives a war.
--Audie Murphy
BIRTHDAYS
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor
1924 – Chet Atkins, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1925 – Audie Murphy, Lieutenant and actor, Medal of Honor recipient
1942 – Brian Wilson, Singer-songwriter and producer
1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist
1952 – John Goodman, Actor
IN MEMORY
840 – Louis the Pious, Carolingian emperor
1947 – Bugsy Siegel, Mobster
2012 – LeRoy Neiman, Painter
IN ON THIS DAY
1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1863 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S.