June 22, 2023
QUOTE
If God’s got a favorite songwriter, I think it’s John Prine.
--Kris Kristofferson
BIRTHDAYS
1792 – James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman
1922 – Bill Blass, Fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1943 – Brit Hume, Journalist and author
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
IN MEMORY
1905 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas
1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general
1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general
1969 – Judy Garland, Actress and singer
1987 – Fred Astaire, Actor and dancer
1993 – Pat Nixon, Educator, 37th First Lady of the United States
2008 – George Carlin, Comedian, actor, and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1783 – The eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland. An estimated 120,000,000 long tons of sulfur dioxide was emitted causing a thick haze to spread across western Europe, resulting in many thousands of deaths. The weather became very hot, causing severe thunderstorms with large hailstones that were reported to have killed cattle, In North America, the winter of 1784 was the longest and one of the coldest on record. It was the longest period of below-zero temperatures in New England, with the largest accumulation of snow in New Jersey, and the longest freezing over of Chesapeake Bay. A huge snowstorm hit the South; the Mississippi River froze at New Orleans and there were reports of ice floes in the Gulf of Mexico
1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio