April 26, 2023
QUOTE
I want to make someone walk straight, but I’ve left my sons nothing but wars.
--Broderick Crawford
BIRTHDAYS
1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander
1933 – Carol Burnett, Actress, singer, and producer
1965 – Kevin James, Actor and comedian
1970 – Melania Trump, 47th First Lady of the United States
IN MEMORY
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, Actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1981 – Jim Davis, Actor
1986 – Broderick Crawford, Actor
1989 – Lucille Ball, Model, actress, comedian, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of France. This event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1954 – The first clinical trials of the polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.