April 9, 2023
QUOTE
A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back.
--Francis Bacon
BIRTHDAYS
1903 – Ward Bond, Actor
1921 – Mary Jackson, Mathematician and aerospace engineer for NASA
1930 – Jim Fowler, Zoologist and television host
1932 – Carl Perkins, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Dennis Quaid, Actor
IN MEMORY
1626 – Francis Bacon, English jurist and politician
1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
2001 – Willie Stargell, Baseball player and coach
IN ON THIS DAY
1865 – In the Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1937 – The Kamikaze, the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe, arrives at Croydon Airport in London.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.
1991 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.