August 15, 2022
QUOTE
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him… The moral: When you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
--All from Will Rogers
BIRTHDAYS
1717 – Blind Jack, English engineer
1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor
1824 – John Chisum, Businessman
1912 – Julia Child, Chef and author
IN MEMORY
1935 – Wiley Post, Pilot
1935 – Will Rogers, Actor, comedian, and screenwriter
2008 – Jerry Wexler, Journalist and producer
2013 – Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara
2020 – Robert Trump,Real-estate developer, business executive
IN ON THIS DAY
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1998 – Apple introduces the iMac computer.