August 6, 2022
QUOTE
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
--Ben Jonson
BIRTHDAYS
1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet
1881 – Leo Carrillo, Actor
1892 – Hoot Gibson, Actor, director, and producer
1917 – Robert Mitchum, Actor
IN MEMORY
1637 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright
1945 – Richard Bong, Soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
2004 – Rick James, Singer-songwriter and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1945 – Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.