July 3, 2022
QUOTE
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
--Dave Barry
BIRTHDAYS
1930 – Tommy Tedesco, Guitarist
1939 – Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player
1945 – Michael Cole, Actor
1947 – Dave Barry, Journalist and author
1965 – Connie Nielsen, Actress
IN MEMORY
1863 – Little Crow, Dakota tribal leader
1969 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1971 – Jim Morrison, Singer-songwriter
1989 – Jim Backus, Actor and voice artist
2012 – Andy Griffith, Actor, singer, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1754 – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces in the French and Indian War.
1775 – George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1863 – The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1938 – World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour.
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.