January 30, 2024
QUOTE
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
--Ferdinand Porsche
BIRTHDAYS
1951 – Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer
1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and theoretician
IN MEMORY
1838 – Osceola, American tribal leader
1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche
IN ON THIS DAY
1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London
1703 – The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1968 – The Tet Offensive is launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.