September 9, 2022
QUOTE
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
--Leo Tolstoy
BIRTHDAYS
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright
1890 – Colonel Sanders, Businessman, founded KFC
1951 – Tom Wopat, Actor and singer
1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
1971 – Henry Thomas, Actor and guitarist
IN MEMORY
1909 – E. H. Harriman, Businessman and philanthropist
1915 – Albert Spalding, Baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding
1996 – Bill Monroe, Singer-songwriter
1997 – Burgess Meredith, Actor, director, and producer
1999 – Catfish Hunter, Baseball player
IN ON THIS DAY
1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1972 – In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.