December 5, 2024
QUOTE
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
BIRTHDAYS
1782 – Martin Van Buren, Lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States
1839 – George Armstrong Custer, Idiot and General
1879 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, Pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation
1901 – Walt Disney, Animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company
1932 – Little Richard, Singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
IN MEMORY
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician
1926 – Claude Monet, French painter
1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, Baseball player and manager
1969 – Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke
IN ON THIS DAY
1578 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan raids Valparaiso.
1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1848 – In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1964 – For his heroism in battle, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.