September 12, 2023
QUOTE
If you’ve got a problem, take it out on a drum.
--Neil Peart
BIRTHDAYS
1913 – Jesse Owens, Sprinter and long jumper
1925 – Dickie Moore, Actor
1931 – George Jones, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Barry White, Singer-songwriter
1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer
1967 – Louis C.K., Comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
973 – Nefingus, bishop of Angers
1972 – William Boyd, Actor and producer
1992 – Anthony Perkins, Actor, singer, and director
2003 – Johnny Cash, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.