October 27, 2023
QUOTE
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
--Theodore Roosevelt
BIRTHDAYS
1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright
1939 – John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver
IN MEMORY
1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware
1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author
2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player
2013 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.