April 12, 2023
QUOTE
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
BIRTHDAYS
1946 – Ed O’Neill, Actor and comedian
1947 – Tom Clancy, Historian and author
1947 – David Letterman, Comedian and talk show host
1962 – Carlos Sainz, Spanish racing driver
IN MEMORY
1912 – Clara Barton, Nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
1981 – Joe Louis, Boxer and wrestler
1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxer
1999 – Boxcar Willie, Singer-songwriter
2017 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1861 – The Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1865 – Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205.
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office.
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place.