January 8, 2024
QUOTE
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
--Stephen Hawking
BIRTHDAYS
1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor
1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer
1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter
1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
IN MEMORY
1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin
1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy’s
2020 – Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director
IN ON THIS DAY
1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
1815 – Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1835 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.