March 10, 2022
QUOTE
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
Nikola Tesla
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BIRTHDAYS
1900 – Violet Brown, Jamaican who at one point was the oldest living human (117 years).
1940 – Chuck Norris, Martial artist, actor and producer.
1947 – Tom Scholz, Musician, Guitarist for band Boston. Also an MIT engineer and really interesting cat.
1983 – Carrie Underwood, Singer-songwriter and actress
IN MEMORY
1925 – Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, Actor and director
2007 – Ernie Ladd, Football player and wrestler
IN ON THIS DAY
1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, 1099 miners killed in northern France
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison,
1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, killing more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.