August 24, 2022
QUOTE
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
--Cal Ripken, Jr.
BIRTHDAYS
1901 – Preston Foster, Actor
1905 – Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1930 – Jackie Brenston, Singer-songwriter and saxophonist
1938 – Mason Williams, Guitarist and composer
1960 – Cal Ripken Jr., Baseball player and coach
IN MEMORY
1217 – Eustace the Monk, French pirate
1804 – Peggy Shippen, Wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy
1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor
2014 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician
2021 – Charlie Watts, English musician
IN ON THIS DAY
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion.