August 23, 2023
QUOTE
I’m still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
--Keith Moon
BIRTHDAYS
1754 – Louis XVI of France
1912 – Gene Kelly, Actor, singer, and dancer
1931 – Barbara Eden, Actress and singer
1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
1949 – Shelley Long, Actress
IN MEMORY
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish rebel commander
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, Director, producer, and composer
1962 – Hoot Gibson, Actor, director, and producer
1999 – Norman Wexler, Screenwriter
2021 – Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker
IN ON THIS DAY
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
1775 – King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James’s stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.