November 30, 2023
QUOTE
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
--All from Mark Twain
BIRTHDAYS
1810 – Oliver Winchester, Businessman and politician, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
1835 – Mark Twain, Novelist, humorist, and critic
1874 – Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 – Dick Clark, Television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions
1962 – Bo Jackson, Football and baseball player
1985 – Kaley Cuoco, Actress
IN MEMORY
1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet
1979 – Zeppo Marx, Actor and comedian
2007 – Evel Knievel, Motorcycle rider and stuntman
2017 – Jim Nabors, Actor and comedian
2018 – George H. W. Bush, Politician, 41st President of the United States
IN ON THIS DAY
1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to an official from the French First Republic. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1900 – A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles.
1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.
1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
1982 – Michael Jackson’s sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately becoming the best-selling record album in history.