September 26, 2023
QUOTE
If you have no enemies, you have no character.
--Paul Newman
BIRTHDAYS
1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist
1888 – T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 – Jack LaLanne, Fitness expert
1925 – Marty Robbins, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver
1932 – Donna Douglas, Actress
1948 – Olivia Newton-John, Singer-songwriter and actress
IN MEMORY
800 – Berowulf, bishop of Würzburg
1820 – Daniel Boone, Hunter and explorer
1902 – Levi Strauss, Businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co.
2000 – Richard Mulligan, Actor
2008 – Paul Newman, Actor, director, producer, and businessman
IN ON THIS DAY
1580 – Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.