July 28, 2022
QUOTE
It’s a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
--Vida Blue
BIRTHDAYS
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States
1945 – Jim Davis, Cartoonist, created Garfield
1949 – Vida Blue, Baseball player and sportscaster
1947 – Sally Struthers, Actress
1964 – Lori Loughlin, Actress
IN MEMORY
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer
2013 – Eileen Brennan, Actress and singer
2021 – Dusty Hill, Musician
IN ON THIS DAY
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1854 – USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy is commissioned.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.