June 9, 2023
QUOTE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
--Charles Dickens
BIRTHDAYS
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor
1891 – Cole Porter, Composer and songwriter
1915 – Les Paul, Guitarist and songwriter
1961 – Michael J. Fox, Actor, producer, and author
IN MEMORY
68 – Nero, Roman emperor
1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic
1981 – Allen Ludden, Game show host
2017 – Adam West, Actor and investor
IN ON THIS DAY
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1944 – Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people.
1973 –Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.