September 20, 2023
QUOTE
People don’t understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
--Steve Goodman
BIRTHDAYS
1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general
1878 – Upton Sinclair, Novelist, critic, and essayist
1920 – Jay Ward, Animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions
1934 – Jeff Morris, Actor
1963 – Minnifield
1967 – Kristen Johnston, Actress
IN MEMORY
855 – Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg
1793 – Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer
1973 – Jim Croce, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Steve Goodman, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter
IN ON THIS DAY
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1967 – Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched Clydebank, Scotland.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their airplane crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
1979 – Minnifield got his driver’s Liscense