August 30, 2023
QUOTE
The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.
--Huey Long
BIRTHDAYS
1716 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect
1893 – Huey Long, Lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana
1898 – Shirley Booth, Actress and singer
1908 – Fred MacMurray, Actor
1930 – Warren Buffett, Businessman and philanthropist
IN MEMORY
526 – Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler
2003 – Charles Bronson, Actor and soldier
2006 – Glenn Ford, Actor and producer
2015 – Wes Craven, Director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
2019 – Valerie Harper, Actress and writer
IN ON THIS DAY
70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod’s Temple.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1936 – The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.