August 29, 2022
QUOTE
I only make movies to finance my fishing.
--Lee Marvin
BIRTHDAYS
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
1920 – Charlie Parker, Saxophonist and composer
1926 – Betty Lynn, Actress
1938 – Elliott Gould, Actor and producer
1958 – Michael Jackson, Singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor
IN MEMORY
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, General
1987 – Archie Campbell, Actor and screenwriter
1987 – Lee Marvin, Actor
2016 – Gene Wilder, Stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author
2021 – Ed Asner, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1949 – The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.