June 24, 2022
QUOTE
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
--Grover Cleveland
BIRTHDAYS
1936 – Robert Downey Sr., Actor and director.
1942 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
1944 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter
1950 – Nancy Allen, Actress
IN MEMORY
1908 – Grover Cleveland, lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Philanthropist
1987 – Jackie Gleason, Actor, comedian, and producer
1997 – Brian Keith, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
1922 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
1938 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
2021 – The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.