May 21, 2023
QUOTE
There is a majesty in simplicity.
--Alexander Pope
BIRTHDAYS
1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator
1898 – Armand Hammer, Physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum
1904 – Robert Montgomery, Actor and director
1917 – Raymond Burr, Actor and director
1952 – Mr. T, American actor and wrestler
IN MEMORY
1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish-American explorer
1952 – John Garfield, Actor
1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito
IN ON THIS DAY
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven’s Gate.