July 9, 2023
QUOTE
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
--Ross Perot
BIRTHDAYS
1915 – Lee Embree, sergeant and photographer
1942 – Richard Roundtree, Actor
1946 – Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter
1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer
1956 – Tom Hanks, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1932 – King Camp Gillette, Businessman, founded the Gillette Company
2002 – Rod Steiger, Actor
2019 – Ross Perot, Businessman and politician
2019 – Rip Torn, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1755 – The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan.
1795 – Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.