June 18, 2023
QUOTE
A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be ‘He did very little harm’. And that’s not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.
--Paul Eddington
BIRTHDAYS
1854 – E. W. Scripps, Publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company
1915 – Red Adair, Firefighter
1917 – Richard Boone, Actor, singer, and director
1927 – Paul Eddington, English actor
1942 – Roger Ebert, Journalist, critic, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer
1982 – John Cheever, Novelist and short story writer
2011 – Clarence Clemons, Saxophonist
2020 – Vera Lynn, English singer who was the “Forces’ Sweetheart” in World War II
IN ON THIS DAY
1812 – The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.