May 16, 2023
QUOTE
Everything good that’s ever happened to me came out of helping others.
--Danny Trejo
BIRTHDAYS
1801 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State
1905 – Henry Fonda, Actor
1919 – Liberace, Pianist and entertainer
1944 – Danny Trejo, Actor
1969 – Tucker Carlson, Journalist
IN MEMORY
1620 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator
1957 – Eliot Ness, Federal agent
1985 – Margaret Hamilton, Actress (Wicked Witch of the West)
1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter
2013 – Dick Trickle, Stock car driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an offense punishable by prison.