April 5, 2023
QUOTE
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
--Bette Davis
BIRTHDAYS
1856 – Booker T. Washington, Educator, essayist and historian
1858 – Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman who founded Burpee Seeds
1900 – Spencer Tracy, Actor
1908 – Bette Davis, Actress
1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1940 – Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer
1976 – Howard Hughes, Pilot, engineer, and director
1992 – Sam Walton, Businessman, founded Walmart
1994 – Kurt Cobain, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2000 – Lee Petty, Stockcar driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1614 – Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1792 –George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used.
1933 –Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.