April 7, 2022
QUOTE
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
--Benjamin Franklin
BIRTHDAYS
1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, Founded the Kellogg Company
1928 – James Garner, Actor, singer, and producer
1933 – Wayne Rogers, Actor, investor, and producer
1943 – Mick Abrahams, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Jackie Chan, Martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
AD 30 – Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion)
1891 – P. T. Barnum, Co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus
1947 – Henry Ford, Founded the Ford Motor Company
1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver
2020 – John Prine, Country folk singer-songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz
1795 – The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West
1862 – Union’s Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1943 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1968 – Two-time Formula One British champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race.