November 25, 2022
QUOTE
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
--Andrew Carnegie
BIRTHDAYS
1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist
1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, Baseball player and coach
1947 – John Larroquette, Actor
1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., Lawyer, journalist, and publisher
IN MEMORY
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American racing driver and businessman
1998 – Flip Wilson, Comedian, actor, and screenwriter
2016 – Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary
2016 – Ron Glass, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
1863 – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1876 – In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.[
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1947 – The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1963 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[