June 8, 2023
QUOTE
Nobody wants peace more than I do. Why shut me up on a reservation? We will make peace; we will keep it faithfully. But let us go around free as Americans do. Let us go wherever we please.”
--Cochise
BIRTHDAYS
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
1918 – Robert Preston, Actor and singer
1918 – Robert Preston, Actor and singer
1927 – Jerry Stiller, Actor, comedian and producer
1933 – Joan Rivers, Comedian, actress, and television host
IN MEMORY
1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief principal, Nantan of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache.
1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver
1969 – Robert Taylor, Actor and singer
IN ON THIS DAY
452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution
1861 – Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1959 – United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.