May 6, 2023
QUOTE
If you don’t drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.
--George Clooney
BIRTHDAYS
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst
1915 – Orson Welles, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1931 – Willie Mays, Baseball player and coach
1945 – Bob Seger, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – George Clooney, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, Essayist, poet, and philosopher
1919 – L. Frank Baum, Novelist
1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1941 –Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
2002– The founding of SpaceX.