October 12, 2022
QUOTE
Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.
--John Denver
BIRTHDAYS
1919 – Doris Miller, Cook and sailor
1921 – Art Clokey, Animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby
1923 – Jean Nidetch, Businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers
1968 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
1977 – Bode Miller, Skier
IN MEMORY
1870 – Robert E. Lee, General
1914 – Margaret E. Knight, Inventor
1940 – Tom Mix, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1997 – John Denver, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball player and coach
IN ON THIS DAY
1492 – Christopher Columbus’s first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.