May 12, 2023
QUOTE
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
--George Carlin
BIRTHDAYS
1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge, historian and politician
1863 – Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer
1907 – Katharine Hepburn, Actress
1925 – Yogi Berra, baseball player, coach, and manager
1937 – George Carlin, comedian, actor, and author
IN MEMORY
1964 – Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor
1992 – Robert Reed, Actor
2000 – Adam Petty, Stock car driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1780 – The largest defeat of the Continental Army when Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.
1942 – The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.