May 4, 2023
QUOTE
Every time you think, you weaken the nation.
--Moe Howard
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.