August 31, 2023
QUOTE
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
--Buddy Hackett
BIRTHDAYS
1924 – Buddy Hackett, Actor and singer
1928 – James Coburn, Actor
1945 – Van Morrison, Singer-songwriter
1970 – Debbie Gibson, Singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1971 – Chris Tucker, Comedian and actor
IN MEMORY
1422 – Henry V of England
1969 – Rocky Marciano, Boxer
1973 – John Ford, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales
IN ON THIS DAY
1535 – Pope Paul III excommunicates English King Henry VIII from the church.
1935 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.