September 2, 2022
QUOTE
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
--J. R. R. Tolkien
BIRTHDAYS
1850 – Albert Spalding, Baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company.
1946 – Billy Preston, Singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, Educator and astronaut
1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor and producer
1966 – Salma Hayek, Actress, director, and producer
IN MEMORY
1964 – Alvin C. York, Colonel, Medal of Honor recipient
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist
1978 – Fred G. Meyer, Businessman, founded Fred Meyer
2005 – Bob Denver, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral.
1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1864 – Union forces enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
2008 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser.