May 2, 2023
QUOTE
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
--Catherine the Great
BIRTHDAYS
1579 – Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shōgun
1729 – Catherine the Great of Russia
1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer
1885 – Hedda Hopper, Actress and gossip columnist
1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot
IN MEMORY
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, First director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1984 – Bob Clampett, Animator, director, and producer
1990 – David Rappaport, Actor
1999 – Oliver Reed, Actor
2010 – Lynn Redgrave, Actress and singer
IN ON THIS DAY
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1863 – Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp.
1945 – The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
1952 – A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 – Osama bin Laden is killed by the United States special forces in Pakistan.