June 4, 2022
QUOTE
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
--John Barrymore
BIRTHDAYS
1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, Inventor and businessman
1924 – Dennis Weaver, Actor and director
1932 – John Drew Barrymore, Actor
1936 – Bruce Dern, Actor and is tied with Richard Boone as best bad guy ever according to Minnifield.
IN MEMORY
1997 – Ronnie Lane, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2007 – Bill France, Jr., Businessman
2010 – John Wooden, Basketball player and coach
2012 – Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player
IN ON THIS DAY
1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1615 – Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile.
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1940 – The Dunkirk evacuation ends and Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
1977 – JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.