March 30, 2022
QUOTE
There is no justification for taking away individuals’ freedom in the guise of public safety.
--Thomas Jefferson
BIRTHDAYS
1632 – John Proctor, farmer hanged for witchcraft in Salem
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator
1895 – Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews
1945 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1981 – DeWitt Wallace, Publisher, co-founded Reader’s Digest
1986 – James Cagney, Actor and dancer
1996 – Hugh Falkus, English pilot and author
2002 – Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
2021 – G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal
IN ON THIS DAY
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1855 – Border Ruffians from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre.
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph
1981 –President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.