June 19, 2023
QUOTE
Every time you think, you weaken the nation.
--Moe Howard
BIRTHDAYS
1797 – Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer
1897 – Moe Howard, Actor, comedian
1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader
1903 – Lou Gehrig, Baseball player
1914 – Lester Flatt, Bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player
IN MEMORY
1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general
1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy
1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy
2016 – Anton Yelchin, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
1718 – At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.
1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields.
1960 – The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.