March 14, 2022
QUOTE
The reverence and respect that needs to be given, and I do, is for my great-granddad and my grandfather. They’re the ones that homesteaded the ranch and built the ranch.
Roger Newkirk
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BIRTHDAYS
1942 – Donna Newkirk, Third generation Wyoming rancher, mother of three hooligans, past Albany County Ranch Woman of the year, sheep herder, cowgirl, four decade rural route postal carrier, humorist and practical joker, co-owner of Minnifield’s sheep wagon, prime rib specialist, and briefly a Radio City Rockette.
Happy Birthday Mom from Soaphole, Great Scout, Minnifield and Nuttsack.
1863 – Casey Jones, Train Engineer
1879 – Albert Einstein
1914 – Lee Petty, Stock car driver, founded Petty Enterprises
1933 – Michael Caine, Actor, Second Hand Lion
IN MEMORY
1932 – George Eastman, founded Eastman Kodak
2010 – Peter Graves, Actor
2018 – Stephen Hawking, Physicist
IN ON THIS DAY
1794 – Eli Whitney granted patent for the cotton gin.
1780 – Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama.
1885 – The Mikado, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London
1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin.
1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.