December 3, 2023
QUOTE
“My version of that is that I got out of the car and then he went to beating on my fists with his nose.”
--Bobby Allison
BIRTHDAYS
1857 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist
1927 – Andy Williams, singer
1937 – Bobby Allison, Race car driver and businessman
1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, Singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1610 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general and daimyō
1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist
1981 – Walter Knott, Farmer, founded Knott’s Berry Farm
1999 – Scatman John, Singer-songwriter and pianist
IN ON THIS DAY
1775 – USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1901 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”.
1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1979 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.