December 6, 2023
QUOTE
I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
--Roy Orbison
BIRTHDAYS
1863 – Charles Martin Hall, Chemist and engineer
1896 – Ira Gershwin, Songwriter
1900 – Agnes Moorehead, Actress
1921 – Otto Graham, Football player and coach
1948 – JoBeth Williams, Actress
IN MEMORY
1716 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer
1879 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, Businessman
1988 – Roy Orbison, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Frances Bavier, Actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
1897 – London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1969 – At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.