June 13, 2022
QUOTE
Be yourself. Because if people don’t like you as you are, they’re not going to like you as somebody you’re trying to be.
--Jimmy Dean
BIRTHDAYS
839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor
1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician
1918 – Ben Johnson, Actor and stuntman
1953 – Tim Allen, Actor, comedian, and producer
1962 – Ally Sheedy, Actress and author
IN MEMORY
1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai
1986 – Benny Goodman, Clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader
2010 – Jimmy Dean, Singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods
2021 – Ned Beatty, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns
1805 – Scouting ahead of the main Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1927 –Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade in New York City.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System.
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.