June 27, 2002
QUOTE
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
--All From Helen Keller
BIRTHDAYS
1880 – Helen Keller, Author, academic, and activist
1907 – John McIntire, Actor
1930 – Ross Perot, Businessman and politician
1951 – Julia Duffy, Actress
1975 – Tobey Maguire, A\ctor
IN MEMORY
2001 – Jack Lemmon, Actor
2002 – John Entwistle, Singer-songwriter, producer and bassist for The Who.
2004 – George Patton IV, General
2005 – Shelby Foote, Historian and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.