August 20, 2022
QUOTE
Only in America will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
--Don King
BIRTHDAYS
1833 – Benjamin Harrison, General, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States
1923 – Jim Reeves, Singer-songwriter
1931 – Don King, American boxing promoter
1943 – Sylvester McCoy, Actor
1948 – Robert Plant, singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch preacher, founded the Brethren of the Common Life
1912 – William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army
2008 – Ed Freeman, Soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
2012 – Phyllis Diller, Actress and comedian
2017 – Jerry Lewis, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London.
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1910 – Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres and killing 87 people.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years.
until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”