August 22, 2022
QUOTE
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
--Dorothy Parker
BIRTHDAYS
1893 – Dorothy Parker, Poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist
1917 – John Lee Hooker, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1920 – Ray Bradbury, Science fiction writer and screenwriter
1973 – Kristen Wiig, Actress, comedian, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1485 – Richard III of England
1996 – Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer
2012 – Jeffrey Stone, Actor and screenwriter
2018 – Ed King, Musician
IN ON THIS DAY
1780 – James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1941 – German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1953 – The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).