March 17, 2022
QUOTE
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
BIRTHDAYS
1537 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō
1804 – Jim Bridger, Fur trader and explorer
1902 – Bobby Jones, Golfer and lawyer
1919 – Nat King Cole, Singer, pianist, and television host
1951 – Kurt Russell, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1853 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician
1993 – Helen Hayes, Actress
1956 – Fred Allen, Actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1776 – The British Army evacuates Boston
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1945 – Ten days after it’s capture the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses.
1968 – Over 6,000 sheep are found dead in Skull Valley, Utah, a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps