October 9, 2022
QUOTE
I’m only interested in heavy metal when it’s me who’s playing it. I suppose it’s a bit like smelling your own farts.
--John Entwistle
BIRTHDAYS
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel
1941 – Brian Lamb, Broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, producer and greatest bass player ever
1948 – Jackson Browne, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Nick Swardson, Actor and comedian
1979 – Chris O’Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1911 – Jack Daniel, Businessman, founded Jack Daniel’s
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman
1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine
2005 – Louis Nye, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1604 – Kepler’s Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the “fourth” US television network.[2]