March 3, 2023
QUOTE
What the use of having ignorance if you can’t show it?
--Lou Costello
BIRTHDAYS
1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader
1920 – James Doohan, Actor and soldier
1962 – Herschel Walker, Football player and according to Minnifield one of the three best running backs ever.
1970 – Julie Bowen, Actress
IN MEMORY
1959 – Lou Costello, Actor and comedian
1966 – William Frawley, Actor and vaudevillian
1991 – Arthur Murray, Dancer and educator
IN ON THIS DAY
1776 – The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1891 – The Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.