March 9, 2023
QUOTE
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
--George Burns
BIRTHDAYS
1902 – Will Geer, Actor
1943 – Bobby Fischer, Chess player and author
1945 – Robin Trower, Guitarist and vocalist
IN MEMORY
1996 – George Burns, Comedian, actor, and writer
1997 – Terry Nation, Author and screenwriter
2016 – Robert Horton, Actor
2021 – Roger Mudd, American journalist
IN ON THIS DAY
1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil if you don’t count the people who already live there.
1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1862 – USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.