August 11, 2022
QUOTE
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
--Steve Wozniak
BIRTHDAYS
1920 – Mike Douglas, Singer and talk show host
1950 – Steve Wozniak, Computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.
1953 – Hulk Hogan, Wrestler
1965 – Viola Davis, Actress
1967 – Joe Rogan, Actor, comedian, and television host
IN MEMORY
1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall
1956 – Jackson Pollock, Painter
1988 – Anne Ramsey, Actress
2014 – Robin Williams, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
1972 – The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.