March 12, 2024
QUOTE
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
--Charlie Parker
BIRTHDAYS
1922 – Jack Kerouac, Author and poet
1938 – Johnny Rutherford, Race car driver and sportscaster
1946 – Liza Minnelli, Actress, singer and dancer
1962 – Darryl Strawberry, Baseball player
IN MEMORY
1914 –George Westinghouse Jr., Businessman and engineer
1955 – Charlie Parker, Saxophonist and composer
2001 – Morton Downey Jr., Singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host
IN ON THIS DAY
1933 –Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States in the first of his fireside chats.
1938 – German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.