March 28, 2022
QUOTE
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
--Mark Twain
BIRTHDAYS
1955 – Reba McEntire, Singer-songwriter and actress
1970 – Vince Vaughn, Actor
1972 – Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian king
1953 – Jim Thorpe, Football player
1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, General and politician, 34th President of the United States
1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer , writer, inspired the musical Sound of Music
IN ON THIS DAY
AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate.
1862 – Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.