March 31, 2023
QUOTE
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
--J. P. Morgan
BIRTHDAYS
1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer
1928 – Lefty Frizzell, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1929 – Liz Claiborne, Fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc.
1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
IN MEMORY
1913 – J. P. Morgan, Banker and financier
1931 – Knute Rockne, Football player and coach
1980 – Jesse Owens, Sprinter and long jumper
1998 – Tim Flock, Stockcar driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established.
1945 –A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned.