July 14, 2022
QUOTE
It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Take it easy, but take it.
--All from Woody Guthrie
BIRTHDAYS
1912 – Woody Guthrie, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
1918 – Jay Wright Forrester, American computer enigineer and systems scientist
1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer
IN MEMORY
664 – Eorcenberht, king of Kent
1881 – William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), Gunfighter and outlaw
1965 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician
1998 – Richard McDonald, Businessman, co-founded McDonald’s
IN ON THIS DAY
1430 – Joan of Arc, taken by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1874 – The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20.
1881 – American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by President Taft after he lands his airplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.
1933 – Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
1951 – Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.