November 15, 2022
QUOTE
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
--Erwin Rommel
BIRTHDAYS
459 – B’utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel
1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth
1929 – Ed Asner, Actor, singer, and producer
1951 – Beverly D’Angelo, Actress, singer, and producer
IN MEMORY
1945 – Frank Chapman, Ornithologist and photographer
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, Actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
1958 – Tyrone Power, Actor, singer, and producer
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, Author
IN ON THIS DAY
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
1864 – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.
1926 – The NBC Radio Network opens with 24 stations.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.