August 28, 2023
QUOTE
If you want to be a champion bull rider, you have to ride the toughest bull,
--Earl Wesley Bascom
BIRTHDAYS
1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer
1921 – Nancy Kulp, Actress and soldier
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
1969 – Jack Black, Actor and comedian
IN MEMORY
1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago
1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor
1985 – Ruth Gordon, Actress and screenwriter
1987 – John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter
1995 – Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter
IN ON THIS DAY
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1810 – The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in U.S. railroads.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1993 – NASA’s Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.