June 23, 2023
QUOTE
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
--Richard Bach
BIRTHDAYS
1927 – Bob Fosse, Actor, dancer, choreographer, and director
1929 – June Carter Cash, Singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1936 – Richard Bach, Novelist and essayist
1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, Actress and singer
1980 – Melissa Rauch, Actress
IN MEMORY
1998 – Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish-American actress
2009 – Jerri Nielsen, Physician and explorer
2011 – Peter Falk, Actor
2015 – Dick Van Patten, Actor
2016 – Ralph Stanley, Singer and banjo player
IN ON THIS DAY
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson’s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay, never to be heard from again.
1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1942 – Germany’s latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.