August 25, 2023
QUOTE
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
--Neil Armstrong
BIRTHDAYS
1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler
1877 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, Businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation
1918 – Leonard Bernstein
1919 – George Wallace, Lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama
1921 – Monty Hall, Television personality and game show host
1954 – Elvis Costello, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1819 – James Watt, Scottish-English engineer and instrument maker
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic
1965 – Moonlight Graham, Baseball player and physician
2012 – Neil Armstrong, Pilot, engineer, and astronaut
IN ON THIS DAY
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1944 – Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune’s orbit from 1979 to 1999.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.