May 29, 2022
QUOTE
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
--John F. Kennedy
BIRTHDAYS
1903 – Bob Hope, Actor, singer, and producer
1914 – Stacy Keach Sr., Actor
1914 – Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer
1917 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
1920 – Clifton James, Actor
IN MEMORY
1942 – John Barrymore, Actor
2010 – Dennis Hopper, Actor, director, and screenwriter
1998 – Barry Goldwater, General, activist, and politician
2012 – Doc Watson, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola.
1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives