September 6, 2022
QUOTE
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a leading role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here
--Roger Waters
BIRTHDAYS
1885 – Otto Kruger, Actor
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1930 – Charles Foley, Game designer, co-created Twister
1939 – David Allan Coe, Outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Roger Waters, Singer-songwriter and bass player
1972 – Idris Elba, Actor
IN MEMORY
1945 – John S. McCain Sr., Admiral
1984 – Ernest Tubb, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988 – Leroy Brown, Wrestler
1990 – Tom Fogerty, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2018 – Burt Reynolds, Actor, director and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 21⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.