November 20, 2023
QUOTE
You can’t be a legend in your parent’s basement.
--Joe Walsh
BIRTHDAYS
1801 – Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor
1900 – Chester Gould, Cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General
1939 – Dick Smothers, Actor and comedian
1947 – Joe Walsh, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1956 – Bo Derek, Actress and producer
IN MEMORY
996 – Richard I, Duke of Normandy
1903 – Tom Horn, Scout, cowboy, soldier
1989 – Lynn Bari, Actress
2006 – Robert Altman, Director, producer, and screenwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 – Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1969 – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1980 – Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.