March 31, 2022
QUOTE
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt
BIRTHDAYS
1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer
1928 – Lefty Frizzell, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1929 – Liz Claiborne, Fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc.
1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
IN MEMORY
1913 – J. P. Morgan, Banker and financier
1931 – Knute Rockne, Football player and coach
1980 – Jesse Owens, Sprinter and long jumper
1998 – Tim Flock, Stockcar driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established.
1945 –A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned.