September 5, 2022
QUOTE
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
--Bob Newhart
BIRTHDAYS
1847 – Jesse James, Outlaw
1929 – Bob Newhart, Comedian and actor
1940 – Raquel Welch, Actress and singer
1946 – Freddie Mercury, Singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – Michael Keaton, Actor and producer
1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, Historian and journalist
IN MEMORY
1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota war leader of the Oglala band
1920 – Robert Harron, Actor
1997 – Mother Teresa, Nun and missionary
1999 – Allen Funt, Director, producer, and screenwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1622 – A hurricane has overrun a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sunk the price galleon Atocha. Only 5 men were rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos were buried with the Atocha.
1666 – The Great Fire of London ends. Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
1698 – Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.