December 16, 2023
QUOTE
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it’s impossible to breed anything.
Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what’s wrong with it.
You will know you’re old when you cease to be amazed.
--All from Noel Coward
BIRTHDAYS
1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
1775 – Jane Austen, English novelist
1899 – Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer
1947 – Ben Cross, English actor
IN MEMORY
1908 – American Horse, Tribal leader and educator
1980 – Colonel Sanders, Businessman, founded KFC
1982 – Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars
1989 – Lee Van Cleef, Actor
2010 – Melvin E. Biddle, Soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
IN ON THIS DAY
1773 – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1880 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
1960 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.