July 25, 2022
QUOTE
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.
--Ben Hogan
BIRTHDAYS
1750 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Lieutenant and pilot
1923 – Estelle Getty, Actress
1925 – Dick Passwater, Race car driver
1954 – Walter Payton, Football player and race car driver
IN MEMORY
1995 – Charlie Rich, Singer-songwriter
1997 – Ben Hogan, Golfer
2003 – John Schlesinger, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
2009 – Harry Patch, English soldier
IN ON THIS DAY
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1783 – The American Revolutionary War’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.