May 29, 2023
QUOTE
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
--Bob Hope
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
1919 – Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1935 – The first flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter
1953 – Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary and become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.