April 13, 2023
QUOTE
When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson
BIRTHDAYS
1866 – Butch Cassidy, Outlaw
1897 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, Architect and game designer, created Scrabble.
1931 – Dan Gurney, Race car driver and engineer1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
IN MEMORY
1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, Astronomer and academic
2005 – Johnnie Johnson, Pianist and songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1613 – Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas sets off to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
1861 – Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
1970 – An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes