May 11, 2022
QUOTE
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
--Douglas Adams
BIRTHDAYS
1888 – Irving Berlin, Pianist and composer
1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, Admiral
1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist
1911 – Phil Silvers, Actor and comedian
IN MEMORY
1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., Businessman and philanthropist
1979 – Lester Flatt, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Chester Gould, Cartoonist, created Dick Tracy
2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves on his fourth and last voyage
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.