April 23, 2022
QUOTE
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
BIRTHDAYS
1791 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
1928 – Shirley Temple, Actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat
1936 – Roy Orbison, Singer-songwriter
1942 – Sandra Dee, Model and actress
1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, Actress
IN MEMORY
1616 – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet
1850 – William Wordsworth, English poet and author
1993 – Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers
1995 – Howard Cosell, Lawyer and journalist
IN ON THIS DAY
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
2005 – The first YouTube video, titled “Me at the zoo”, was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.