July 23, 2022
QUOTE
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
--Ulysses S. Grant
BIRTHDAYS
1933 – Bert Convy, Actor, singer, and game show host
1935 – Jim Hall, Race car driver
1940 – Don Imus, Radio host
1961 – Woody Harrelson, Actor
1973 – Monica Lewinsky, Activist and former White House intern
IN MEMORY
1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, General and politician, 18th President of the United States
1966 – Montgomery Clift, Actor
1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, World War 1 Ace and race car driver
1982 – Vic Morrow, Actor
2012 – Sally Ride, Physicist and astronaut
IN ON THIS DAY
1829 – William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1962 – The Telstar satellite relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.