May 4, 2022
QUOTE
Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can’t help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.
--Richard Proenneke
BIRTHDAYS
1916 – Richard Proenneke, Soldier, carpenter, and meteorologist
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Actress and humanitarian
1948 – Hurley Haywood, Race car driver
1959 – Randy Travis, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1970 – Will Arnett, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1975 – Moe Howard, Actor, singer, and screenwriter
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake
2009 – Dom DeLuise, Actor, director, and producer
2020 – Don Shula, Football player and coach
IN ON THIS DAY
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1932 – Mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces. 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.