July 20, 2024
QUOTE
What else is there for the rich to do,
If not to relieve the poor of their misery?
--Pancho Villa
BIRTHDAYS
1919 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer
1938 – Natalie Wood, Actress
1947 – Carlos Santana, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Judy Greer, Actress and producer
1987 – Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist
IN MEMORY
1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua
1973 – Bruce Lee, Actor and martial artist
1999 – Sandra Gould, Actress
2005 – James Doohan, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1807 – In France, Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine.
1900 – An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight near Friedrichshafen.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine for the first time.
1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1969 – Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.