July 17, 2023
QUOTE
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know – not what they want to know.
--Walter Cronkite
BIRTHDAYS
1899 – James Cagney, Actor and dancer
1901 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver
1912 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host
1917 – Phyllis Diller, Actress, comedian, and voice artist
1918 – Red Sovine, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1935 – Donald Sutherland, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1881 – Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer
1961 – Ty Cobb, Baseball player and manager
1988 – Bruiser Brody, Football player and wrestler
1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver
2009 – Walter Cronkite, Journalist and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1850 – Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed
1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists.
1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
1945 – The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.