March 30, 2023
QUOTE
Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, didn’t eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn’t want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you’d say ‘Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!’ That’s the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you’ll be run over by a big red bus.
--Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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.