March 24, 2023
QUOTE
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
--Jules Verne
BIRTHDAYS
1834 – William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author
1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, Lawyer and politician
1911 – Joseph Barbera, Animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera
1930 – Steve McQueen, Actor and producer
1944 – R. Lee Ermey, Sergeant and actor
IN MEMORY
1603 – Elizabeth I of England
1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet and educator
1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright
IN ON THIS DAY
1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1900 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey.
1944 – The event that inspired the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1989 –The Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 240,000 barrels of crude oil in Prince William Sound in Alaska.