May 11, 2023
QUOTE
If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
--Bob Marley
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.