June 16, 2023
QUOTE
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
--Wernher von Braun
BIRTHDAYS
1821 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect
1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian
1923 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish race car driver
1964 – Danny Burstein, Actor and singer
IN MEMORY
1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic
1959 – George Reeves, Actor and director
1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer
IN ON THIS DAY
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.