January 10, 2024
QUOTE
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
--Stephen Ambrose
BIRTHDAYS
1843 – Frank James, Soldier and criminal
1917 – Jerry Wexler, Journalist and producer
1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, Historian and author
1943 – Jim Croce, Singer-songwriter
1945 – Rod Stewart, British singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1862 – Samuel Colt, Engineer and businessman, founded Colt’s Manufacturing Company
1917 – Buffalo Bill Cody, Soldier and hunter
1971 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel
2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap’s Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.