June 30, 2023
QUOTE
Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
--Mike Tyson
BIRTHDAYS
1917 – Lena Horne, Actress and singer
1919 – Ed Yost, Inventor of the modern hot air balloon
1966 – Mike Tyson, Boxer and actor
1971 – Monica Potter, Actress
1985 – Michael Phelps, Swimmer
IN MEMORY
1995 – Gale Gordon, Actor and voice artist
2001 – Chet Atkins, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2003 – Buddy Hackett, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1864 – President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.