November 18, 2023
QUOTE
Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.
--James Coburn
BIRTHDAYS
1908 – Imogene Coca, Actress, comedian, and singer
1909 – Johnny Mercer, Singer-songwriter and producer, co-founded Capitol Records
1944 – Edwin C. Krupp, Astronomer, archaeoastronomer, author, Director Griffith Observatory
1948 – Jack Tatum, Football player
IN MEMORY
1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1978 – Jim Jones, Cult leader, founded Peoples Temple
1994 – Cab Calloway, Singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra)
2002 – James Coburn, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1626 – The new St Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1978 – The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, United States.