May 28, 2023
QUOTE
No soldier ever really survives a war.
--Audie Murphy
BIRTHDAYS
1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer
1888 – Jim Thorpe, Decathlete, football player, and coach
1910 – T-Bone Walker, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Rudy Giuliani, Lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City
1945 – Patch Adams, Physician and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute
IN MEMORY
1904 – Kicking Bear, Tribal leader an Oglala Lakota who became a band chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux.
1971 – Audie Murphy, Soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient
1998 – Phil Hartman, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
1892 – John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1937 – Volkswagen is founded.
1996 –Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.