November 12, 2023
QUOTE
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
--Karl Marx
BIRTHDAYS
1897 – Karl Marx, German composer and conductor
1929 – Grace Kelly, Actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco
1934 – Charles Manson, Cult leader
1970 – Tonya Harding, Figure skater
1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and singer
IN MEMORY
1595 – John Hawkins, English admiral and shipbuilder
1981 – William Holden, Actor
1990 – Eve Arden, Actress and comedian
2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer
IN ON THIS DAY
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1954 – Ellis Island ceases operations.
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.