June 11, 2023
QUOTE
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
--Vince Lombardi
BIRTHDAYS
1572 – Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic
1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota
1913 – Vince Lombardi, Football player, coach, and manager
1933 – Gene Wilder, Actor, director, and screenwriter
1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, Actress
1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1979 – John Wayne, Actor, director, and producer
1999 – DeForest Kelley, Actor and screenwriter
2003 – David Brinkley, Journalist and author
2015 – Dusty Rhodes, Wrestler
IN ON THIS DAY
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, the first automobile race in history takes place.
1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States.
1937 – In the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1944 – The USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy is commissioned.
1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports