March 7, 2022
QUOTE
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
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BIRTHDAYS
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw
1927 – James Broderick, Actor and director
1934 – Willard Scott, Weatherman, television personality and actor
1944 – Townes Van Zandt, Singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, pioneer in balloon flight
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, Director, producer, and screenwriter
2013 – Peter Banks, Guitarist and songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted patent for the telephone.
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1936 – In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey.