August 27, 2023
QUOTE
I think there’s so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren’t even worth talking about.
--Gracie Allen
BIRTHDAYS
1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1899 – C. S. Forester, English novelist
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, Commander and politician, 36th President of the United States
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1964 – Gracie Allen, Actress and comedian
1967 – Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager
1980 – Douglas Kenney, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.