April 14, 2022
QUOTE
If you could use your brain like you use your ass.
--Alice Cooper
BIRTHDAYS
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator and instructor to Helen Keller
1925 – Rod Steiger, Soldier and actor
1932 – Loretta Lynn, Singer-songwriter and musician
1941 – Pete Rose, Baseball player and manager
1973 – Adrien Brody, Actor
IN MEMORY
1935 – Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician and academic
1975 – Fredric March, Actor
1995 – Burl Ives, Actor, folk singer, and writer
2007 – Don Ho, Singer and ukulele player
2013 – Charlie Wilson, Texas Congressman
2015 – Percy Sledge, Singer
IN ON THIS DAY
1865 –Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth and U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 PM.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, makes the first successful transatlantic airplane flight from east to west.
1929 – The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. The race was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti Type 35.
1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles.