December 12, 2023
QUOTE
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead
BIRTHDAYS
1724 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician
1915 – Frank Sinatra, Singer, actor, and producer
1923 – Bob Barker, Game show host and producer[
1940 – Dionne Warwick, Singer
1952 – Cathy Rigby, Gymnast
1967 – John Randle, Football player
IN MEMORY
1296 – Isabella of Mar, first wife of Robert Bruce VII
1939 – Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Actor, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
2006 – Peter Boyle, Actor
2008 – Van Johnson, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter “S” [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
1915 – Yuan Shikai declares the establishment of the Empire of China and proclaims himself Emperor.
1941 – Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.