August 16, 2022
QUOTE
If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything.
--Robert Johnson
BIRTHDAYS
1924 – Fess Parker, Actor
1930 – Robert Culp, Actor, director, and screenwriter
1930 – Frank Gifford, football player, sportscaster, and actor
1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, talk show host, singer, and actress
1991 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
IN MEMORY
1888 – John Pemberton, Pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola
1938 – Robert Johnson, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Babe Ruth, Baseball player and coach
1959 – William Halsey, Jr., Admiral
1977 – Elvis Presley, Singer, guitarist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1812 – American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1944 – First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet setting three records that held until 2012.