October 2, 2022
QUOTE
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
There’s only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.
When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
--All from Groucho Marx
BIRTHDAYS
1452 – Richard III of England
1890 – Groucho Marx, Comedian and actor
1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, Pilot and engineer
1945 – Don McLean, Singer-songwriter
1970 – Kelly Ripa, Actress and talk show host[
IN MEMORY
1803 – Samuel Adams, Politician, Governor of Massachusetts
1973 – Paul Hartman, Actor and dancer
1985 – Rock Hudson, Actor
1998 – Gene Autry, Actor, singer, and guitarist
2017 – Tom Petty, Musician
IN ON THIS DAY
1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification
1942 – The ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton
2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven