April 8, 2023
QUOTE
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
--Omar N. Bradley
BIRTHDAYS
1842 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Author and educator
1892 – Mary Pickford, Actress, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of United Artists
1918 – Betty Ford, Wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States
1946 – Catfish Hunter, Baseball player
1955 – Ricky Bell, Football player
1960 – John Schneider, Actor and country singer
IN MEMORY
1450 – Sejong the Great, Korean king
1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor
1981 – Omar Bradley, General
1996 – Ben Johnson, Actor and stuntman
IN ON THIS DAY
1832 – The Black Hawk War when around the United States 6th Infantry fights the Sauk Native Americans.
1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
1924 – Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk’s Reforms.
1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.