March 8, 2022
QUOTE
Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
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BIRTHDAYS
1746 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lawyer and jurist
1921 – Alan Hale Jr., Actor
1943 – Lynn Redgrave, Actress and singer
IN MEMORY
1998 – Ray Nitschke, Football player
1999 – Joe DiMaggio, Baseball player and coach
2014 – William Guarnere, Staff sergeant,, Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division 1942-1945.
IN ON THIS DAY
1702 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1782 – The Gnadenhutten massacre where Ninety-six Christian Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio were murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other tribes.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.[28]