October 4, 2023
QUOTE
Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it’s up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.
--Graham Chapman
BIRTHDAYS
1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States
1861 – Frederic Remington, Painter, sculptor, and illustrator
1911 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women’s rights activist
1923 – Charlton Heston, Actor and director
1956 – Christoph Waltz, Actor
IN MEMORY
1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator
1970 – Janis Joplin, Singer-songwriter
1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter
2004 – Gordon Cooper, Colonel, engineer, and astronaut
IN ON THIS DAY
1602 – Eighty Years’ War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.