April 2, 2022
QUOTE
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
BIRTHDAYS
747 – Charlemagne, Frankish king
1875 – Walter Chrysler, Businessman, founded Chrysler Corporation
1908 – Buddy Ebsen, Actor and dancer
1914 – Alec Guinness, Actor
1920 – Jack Webb, Aactor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Linda Hunt, American actress
IN MEMORY
IN MEMORY
1966 – C. S. Forester, English novelist (Although Soaphole refuses to believe it – Bush is dead)
1987 – Buddy Rich, Drummer, songwriter, and bandleader
IN ON THIS DAY
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in Florida.
1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater opens in Los Angeles.
1912 – The RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 – President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.