September 8, 2023
QUOTE
I wanted to say something about the universe. There’s God, angels, plants… and horseshit.
--Zero Mostel
BIRTHDAYS
1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1922 – Sid Caesar, Comic actor and writer
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian
1932 – Patsy Cline, Singer-songwriter and pianist
1938 – Kenichi Horie, Japanese sailor
IN MEMORY
1780 – Enoch Poor, American general
1935 – Carl Weiss, Physician
1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer and manager
1970 – Percy Spencer, Engineer, invented the microwave oven
1977 – Zero Mostel, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida’s first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final “golden spike” in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1941 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center.
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
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