July 27, 2022
QUOTE
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
--Norman Lear
BIRTHDAYS
1922 – Norman Lear, Screenwriter and producer
1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, Actor
1937 – Don Galloway, Actor
1944 – Bobbie Gentry, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Peggy Fleming, Figure skater and sportscaster
IN MEMORY
2000 – Gordon Solie, Sportscaster
2003 – Bob Hope, Actor, comedian, television personality, and businessman
2013 – Bud Day, Colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
2017 – Sam Shepard, Playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director
IN ON THIS DAY
1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reaches Japan.
1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.