August 18, 2023
QUOTE
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
--Martin Mull
BIRTHDAYS
1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, first child born to English parents in the Americas
1936 – Robert Redford, Actor, director, and producer
1943 – Martin Mull, Actor and comedian
1952 – Patrick Swayze, Actor and dancer
1969 – Edward Norton, Actor
IN MEMORY
1227 – Genghis Khan, Mongolian emperor
1886 – Eli Whitney Blake, Inventor, invented the Mortise lock
1940 – Walter Chrysler, Businessman, founded Chrysler
2020 – Ben Cross, English stage and film actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
1940 – The Hardest Day air battle in Battle of Britain, at that point the largest aerial engagement in history.
1963 – James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1971 –Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.