April 3, 2023
QUOTE
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
--Doris Day
BIRTHDAYS
1904 – Iron Eyes Cody, Actor and stuntman
1905 – Robert Sink, American general
1922 – Doris Day, Singer and actress
1924 – Marlon Brando, Actor and director
IN MEMORY
1882 – Jesse James, Criminal and outlaw
1993 – Pinky Lee, Television host
2015 – Bob Burns, Drummer and songwriter, first drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd
2016 – Joe Medicine Crow, Anthropologist, historian, and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1865 – Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 – Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
1969 – Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.