September 19, 2023
QUOTE
Anything that triggers good memories can’t be all bad.
--Adam West
BIRTHDAYS
1824 – William Sellers, American engineer, inventor, and businessperson created the standard screw thread system
1909 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman
1927 – Helen Carter, Singer
1928 – Adam West, Actor and businessman
1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor
IN MEMORY
1881 – James A. Garfield, General, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States
1944 – Guy Gibson, Indian-English commander, Victoria Cross recipient. Leader of the Dam Buster Raid.
1973 – Gram Parsons, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1995 – Orville Redenbacher, Businessman, founded his own eponymous brand
2015 – Jackie Collins, English novelist
IN ON THIS DAY
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1944 –The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.