July 18, 2022
QUOTE
He who will not risk cannot win.
--John Paul Jones
BIRTHDAYS
1843 – Virgil Earp, Marshal
1921 – John Glenn, Colonel, astronaut, and politician
1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist and author
1954 – Ricky Skaggs, Singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer
IN MEMORY
1792 – John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat
1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist
2009 – Henry Allingham, English soldier WW1 (born 1896)
2018 – Adrian Cronauer, Radio personality
2005 – William Westmoreland, General
IN ON THIS DAY
1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1944 – Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.