March 26, 2022
QUOTE
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
--Jack Dempsey
BIRTHDAYS
1911 – Tennessee Williams, Playwright, and poet
1931 – Leonard Nimoy, Actor
1934 – Alan Arkin, Actor
1949 – Vicki Lawrence, Actress, comedian, talk show host, and singer
IN MEMORY
1862 – Uriah P. Levy, American commander
1892 – Walt Whitman, Poet, essayist, and journalist
IN ON THIS DAY
1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1945 –The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.