August 8, 2022
QUOTE
I’ve always been reasonably fatalistic.
--Nigel Mansell
BIRTHDAYS
1879 – Bob Smith, Physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous
1922 – Rory Calhoun, Actor
1932 – Mel Tillis, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Willie Hall, Drummer and producer
1953 – Nigel Mansell, English racing driver, 1992 F1 World Champion
IN MEMORY
1863 – Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant
1984 – Richard Deacon, Actor
2004 – Fay Wray, Actress
2017 – Glen Campbell, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1831 – Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta.
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.