September 10, 2023
QUOTE
It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
--Arnold Palmer
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Roy Brown, Singer-songwriter
1929 – Arnold Palmer, Golfer and businessman
1934 – Roger Maris, Baseball player and coach
1934 – Mr. Wrestling II, Wrestler
1949 – Barriemore Barlow, English rock drummer and songwriter
IN MEMORY
1935 – Huey Long, Lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana
2007 – Jane Wyman, Actress
2011 – Cliff Robertson, Actor
2014 – Richard Kiel, Actor
2020 – Diana Rigg, British actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1776 – Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1813 – The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.