October 7, 2022
QUOTE
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
--Edgar Allan Poe
BIRTHDAYS
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, Old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian
1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress
1951 – John Mellencamp, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN MEMORY
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, Short story writer, poet, and critic
1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Physician, author, and poet
1990 – Grim Natwick, Animator
1991 – Leo Durocher, Baseball player and manager
1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter
IN ON THIS DAY
3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.