November 11, 2023
QUOTE
Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
--Jonathan Winters
BIRTHDAYS
1899 – Pat O’Brien, Actor
1909 – Robert Ryan, Actor
1925 – Jonathan Winters, Actor and screenwriter
1962 – Demi Moore, Actress, director, and producer
IN MEMORY
1939 – Bob Marshall, Author and activist
1972 – Berry Oakley, Bass player
2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate
2016 – Robert Vaughn, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1572 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.