May 9, 2023
QUOTE
War don’t ennoble men, it turns ’em into dogs. It poisons the soul.
--James Jones
BIRTHDAYS
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company
1914 – Hank Snow, Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1918 – Mike Wallace, Journalist, media personality and one-time game show host
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor
1946 – Candice Bergen, Actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1914 – C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods
1968 – Harold Gray, Cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie
1977 – James Jones, American novelist
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser and businessman
2020 – Little Richard, Singer, songwriter, and pianist
IN ON THIS DAY
1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England’s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1865 – Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
1941 – The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1974 – The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1980 – In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.