September 28, 2023
QUOTE
Just shoot up here amongst us, one of us has got to have some relief.
--Jerry Clower
BIRTHDAYS
551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher.
1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock
1901 – Ed Sullivan, Television host
1909 – Al Capp, Author and illustrator
1926 – Jerry Clower, Soldier, comedian, and author
1938 – Ben E. King, Singer-songwriter and producer
IN MEMORY
1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears
1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope
1938 – Charles Duryea, Engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1953 – Edwin Hubble, Astronomer and scholar
1956 – William Boeing, Businessman, founded the Boeing Company
1991 – Miles Davis, Trumpet player, composer, and bandleader
IN ON THIS DAY
1066 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
1779 – Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.