August 27, 2022
QUOTE
Regardless of what Soaphole says, Bush is dead.
--C S Forester
BIRTHDAYS
1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1899 – C. S. Forester, English novelist
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, Commander and politician, 36th President of the United States
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1964 – Gracie Allen, Actress and comedian
1967 – Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager
1980 – Douglas Kenney, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.