November 23, 2022
QUOTE
My health is good; it’s my age that’s bad.
--Roy Acuff
BIRTHDAYS
1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor
1888 – Harpo Marx, Comedian and musician
1928 – Elmarie Wendel, Actress and singer
1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1992 – Roy Acuff, Singer-songwriter and fiddler
2012 – Larry Hagman, Actor, director, and producer
2014 – Marion Barry, Lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia
2016 – Joe Esposito, Road manager for Elvis Presley
IN ON THIS DAY
1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
1924 – Edwin Hubble’s discovery, that the Andromeda “nebula” is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published.
1963 – The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
1991 – Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day.
1992 – The first smart phone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.