May 10, 2023
QUOTE
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.
--Joan Crawford
BIRTHDAYS
1755 – Robert Gray, American captain and explorer
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, Actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1899 – Fred Astaire, Actor, singer, and dancer
1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player
IN MEMORY
1818 – Paul Revere, Engraver and soldier
1977 – Joan Crawford, Actress
1999 – Shel Silverstein, Poet, author, and illustrator
2012 – Carroll Shelby, Race car driver and designer
IN ON THIS DAY
28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
1916 – Sailing in a lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrive at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.