November 27, 2022
QUOTE
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
--Bruce Lee
BIRTHDAYS
1912 – Connie Sawyer, Actress
1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, Actor and television host
1940 – Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1955 – Bill Nye, Engineer, educator, and television host
IN MEMORY
1901 – Clement Studebaker, Businessman, co-founded Studebaker
1988 – John Carradine, Actor
1990 – David White, Actor
2014 – P. D. James, English author
IN ON THIS DAY
1868 – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1965 – The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.