Janurary 16, 2023
QUOTE
It ain’t bragging if you can do it.
--Dizzy Dean
BIRTHDAYS
1901 – Frank Zamboni, American businessman and inventor
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster
1935 – A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter and actor
1948 – John Carpenter, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
IN MEMORY
1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian
2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch
2014 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor
2020 – Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor
2021 – Phil Spector, American record producer, songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1786 – Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.