September 14, 2022
QUOTE
Everywhere is here and every when is now.
--Dante Alighieri
BIRTHDAYS
1643 – Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith
1910 – Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer
1949 – Steve Gaines, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter
1964 – Faith Ford, American actress
IN MEMORY
1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian writer
1715 – Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, Novelist, short story writer, and historian
1901 – William McKinley, Soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States
2009 – Henry Gibson, Actor
2009 – Patrick Swayze, Actor, singer, and dancer
IN ON THIS DAY
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 – The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.