September 29, 2023
QUOTE
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.’ Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.
--Gene Autry
BIRTHDAYS
1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1907 – Gene Autry, Singer, actor, and businessman
1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor
1939 – Larry Linville, Actor
1942 – Madeline Kahn, Actress and singer
IN MEMORY
1927 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1987 – Henry Ford II, Businessman
2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, Soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
2010 – Tony Curtis, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1940 – Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
2004 – Burt Rutan’s Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.