September 13, 2022
QUOTE
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits ’em together. You got some sugar and I don’t; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I’ll give you some of mine.
--Ray Charles
BIRTHDAYS
1818 – Lucy Goode Brooks, Former slave and a founder of Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans
1903 – Claudette Colbert, Actress
1911 – Bill Monroe, Singer-songwriter and mandolin player
1918 – Ray Charles, Singer-songwriter and conductor
1925 – Mel Tormé, Singer-songwriter and actor
1948 – Nell Carter, Actress and singer
IN MEMORY
1941 – Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman
1998 – George Wallace, Sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama
2006 – Ann Richards, Educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas
2009 – Paul Burke, Actor
2019 – Eddie Money, Musician
IN ON THIS DAY
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, which is later set to music and becomes the United States’ national anthem.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
2007 – The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors’ championship standings.