June 17, 2023
QUOTE
The nerds are running the world now.
--Joe Piscopo
BIRTHDAYS
1704 – John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle
1865 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, Native American physician
1904 – Ralph Bellamy, Actor
1910 – Red Foley, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Barry Manilow, Singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – Joe Piscopo, Actor, comedian, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1986 – Kate Smith, American singer
2009 – Darrell Powers, Sergeant. Easy Company, 101st Airborne
2014 – Patsy Byrne, English actress
2019 – Gloria Vanderbilt, Artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite
IN ON THIS DAY
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1876 – Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 – Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres of land undervalued at four cents per acre in the 1863 treaty.