December 20, 2023
QUOTE
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
--W. Edwards Deming
BIRTHDAYS
1868 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, Businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1869 – Charley Grapewin, Actor
1901 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, Physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator
1932 – John Hillerman, Actor
1966 – Chris Robinson, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 – Jonah Hill, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1812 – Sacagawea, American explorer
1921 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist
1968 – John Steinbeck, Novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1973 – Bobby Darin, Singer-songwriter and actor
1993 – W. Edwards Deming, Statistician, author, and academic
1996 – Carl Sagan, Astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
IN ON THIS DAY
1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
1941 – First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers”, in Kunming, China.
1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1989 – The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.