March 7, 2024
QUOTE
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor.
--Townes Van Zandt
BIRTHDAYS
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw
1927 – James Broderick, Actor and director
1934 – Willard Scott, Weatherman, television personality and actor
1944 – Townes Van Zandt, Singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, pioneer in balloon flight
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, Director, producer, and screenwriter
2013 – Peter Banks, Guitarist and songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted patent for the telephone.
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1936 –In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey.