July 5, 2023
QUOTE
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.
--P. T. Barnum
BIRTHDAYS
1801 – David Farragut, American admiral
1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1943 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1945 – Michael Blake, Author and screenwriter
1950 – Huey Lewis, Singer-songwriter and actor
1958 – Bill Watterson, Author and illustrator
IN MEMORY
1819 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician
1929 – Henry Johnson, American sergeant
2002 – Ted Williams, Baseball player and manager
2006 – Kenneth Lay, Businessman
IN ON THIS DAY
328 – The official opening of Constantine’s Bridge built over the Danube by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1859 – The United States discovers and claims Midway Atoll.
1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1954 – Elvis Presley records his first single, “That’s All Right”, at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
1994 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.