January 18, 2024
QUOTE
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
--Rudyard Kipling
BIRTHDAYS
1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian
1904 – Cary Grant, English-American actor
1917 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
1943 – Charlie Wilson, American businessman and politician
IN MEMORY
1862 – John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States
1952 – Curly Howard, American actor
1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
2016 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.
1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France