September 30, 2023
QUOTE
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
--James Dean
BIRTHDAYS
1917 – Buddy Rich, Drummer, bandleader, and actor
1918 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain
1931 – Angie Dickinson, Actress
1958 – Marty Stuart, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Tony Hale, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1955 – James Dean, Actor
1977 – Mary Ford, Singer and guitarist
2003 – Ronnie Dawson, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2012 – Clara Stanton Jones, Librarian
2017 – Monty Hall, Game show host
IN ON THIS DAY
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas.\
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation.
1915 – Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.