June 6, 2023
QUOTE
A man can fail, but he isn’t a failure until he blames someone else.
--J. Paul Getty
BIRTHDAYS
1755 – Nathan Hale, Soldier
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, Singer-songwriterJ. Paul Getty
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis champion
1967 – Paul Giamatti, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, Soldier, lawyer, and politician
1976 – J. Paul Getty, Businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company
2005 – Anne Bancroft, Actress
2006 – Billy Preston, Singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1892 – The Chicago “L” elevated rail system begins operation.
1925 – The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
1942 – The United States Navy’s victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway.
1944 –D-Day, Operation Overlord the Allied invasion of Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating.
2002 – A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya.