May 31, 2022
QUOTE
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men … re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
--Walt Whitman
BIRTHDAYS
1819 – Walt Whitman, Poet, essayist, and journalist
1908 – Don Ameche, Actor
1922 – Denholm Elliott, Actor
1930 – Clint Eastwood, Actor, director, musician, and producer
1960 – Chris Elliott, Actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1961 – Lea Thompson, Actress, director, and producer
1965 – Brooke Shields, Model, actress, and producer
IN MEMORY
1983 – Jack Dempsey, Boxer and lieutenant
1993 – Honey Tree Evil Eye (Spuds MacKenzie) Bud Light Bull Terrier mascot
1996 – Timothy Leary, Psychologist and author
2013 – Jean Stapleton, Actress
2014 – Hoss Ellington, Stock car driver
IN ON THIS DAY
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1911 – The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2013 – A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities and over 150 injuries.