August 2, 2023
QUOTE
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
--Peter O'Toole
BIRTHDAYS
1835 – Elisha Gray, Businessman, co-founded Western Electric
1892 – Jack L. Warner, Production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros.
1924 – Carroll O’Connor, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1932 – Peter O’Toole, British-Irish actor and producer
1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, Actress
IN MEMORY
1876 – “Wild Bill” Hickok, Sheriff
1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Engineer, invented the telephone
1923 – Warren G. Harding, Journalist and politician, 29th president of the United States
2016 – David Huddleston, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1610 – During Henry Hudson’s search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.
1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.