August 4, 2023
QUOTE
Seems to me, it aint the world that’s so bad but what we’re doin’ to it. And all I’m saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love baby, love. That’s the secret…
--Louis Armstrong
BIRTHDAYS
1704 – Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans
1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton
1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer
1961 – Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
IN MEMORY
1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne
1821 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
1914 – World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1964 – Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.