April 11, 2023
QUOTE
I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.
--Louise Lasser
BIRTHDAYS
1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
1947 – Peter Riegert, Actor, screenwriter and film director
1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
IN MEMORY
2000 – Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer
2006 – June Pointer, singer
2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, novelist, short story writer, and playwright
2013 – Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor and screenwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1945 – American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1976 – The Apple I is created.