July 8, 2023
QUOTE
I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
--Marty Feldman
BIRTHDAYS
1838 – Eli Lilly, Soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, Businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company
1934 – Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter
1952 – Jack Lambert, Football player and sportscaster
1958 – Kevin Bacon, Actor and musician
IN MEMORY
1967 – Vivien Leigh, British actress
1985 – Phil Foster, Actor and screenwriter
1994 – Dick Sargent, Actor
2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
2015 – Ken Stabler, Football player and sportscaster
IN ON THIS DAY
1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
1776 – Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1898 – Crime boss Soapy Smith is killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf.
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.