December 11, 2023
QUOTE
If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.
--Nikki Sixx
BIRTHDAYS
1921 – Liz Smith, English actress
1926 – Big Mama Thornton, Singer-songwriter
1940 – David Gates, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1944 – Lynda Day George, Actress
1958 – Nikki Sixx, Bass player, songwriter, and producer
IN MEMORY
1880 – Oliver Winchester, Businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
1971 – Maurice McDonald, Businessman, co-founded McDonald’s
2008 – Bettie Page, Model
2021 – Anne Rice, Author
IN ON THIS DAY
1282 – In the Battle of Orewin Bridge, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales.
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to Saint John’s, Newfoundland.
1913 – More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.