June 5, 2023
QUOTE
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.
--Kenny G
BIRTHDAYS
1850 – Pat Garrett, Sheriff
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua
1954 – Nancy Stafford, Model and actress
1956 – Kenny G, Saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
IN MEMORY
1910 – O. Henry, Short story writer
1993 – Conway Twitty, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone,Singer-songwriter and bass player
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
IN ON THIS DAY
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1968 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests.