August, 14, 2022
QUOTE
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Steve Martin
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
I cannot smell mothballs because it’s so difficult to get their little legs apart.
--All from the mind of Steve Martin
BIRTHDAYS
1851 – Doc Holliday, Dentist and gambler
1881 – Francis Ford, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1896 – Albert Ball, English fighter pilot
1945 – Steve Martin, Actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1951 – William Randolph Hearst, Publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation
1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari
2006 – Bruno Kirby, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1842 – Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres of land.
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.