September 7, 2023
QUOTE
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.
--Buddy Holly
BIRTHDAYS
1867 – J. P. Morgan Jr., Banker and philanthropist
1923 – Peter Lawford, English-American actor
1936 – Buddy Holly, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Corbin Bernsen, Actor
IN MEMORY
1202 – William of the White Hands, French cardinal
1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare
1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who)
2008 – Gregory Mcdonald, Author
2015 – Dickie Moore, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist)..
1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
1940 – The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
2008 – The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.