July 15, 2022
QUOTE
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.
--Alex Karras
BIRTHDAYS
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher
1913 – Cowboy Copas, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1924 – Jeremiah Denton, Admiral and politician
1931 – Clive Cussler, Archaeologist and author
1935 – Alex Karras, Football player, wrestler, and Mongo
IN MEMORY
1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
1991 – Bert Convy, Actor, singer, and game show host
1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace
2017 – Martin Landau, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1870 – Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).