June 10, 2023
QUOTE
There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
--Louis L'Amour
BIRTHDAYS
1865 – Frederick Cook, Physician and explorer
1916 – William Rosenberg, Entrepreneur, founded Dunkin’ Donuts
1922 – Judy Garland, Actress and singer
1926 – Lionel Jeffries, English actor, screenwriter and film director
1941 – Mickey Jones, Drummer
IN MEMORY
1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer
1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor
1988 – Louis L’Amour, American novelist and short story writer
2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1692 – During the Salem witch trials Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1854 – The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by Smith and Bill Wilson.
1944 –15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.