August 14, 2023
QUOTE
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
--Steve Martin
BIRTHDAYS
1851 – Doc Holliday, Dentist and gambler
1881 – Francis Ford, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1896 – Albert Ball, English fighter pilot
1945 – Steve Martin, Actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1951 – William Randolph Hearst, Publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation
1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari
2006 – Bruno Kirby, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1842 – Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres of land.
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.