November 22, 2022
QUOTE
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
--Jack London
BIRTHDAYS
1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter
1922 – Eugene Stoner, Engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle
1940 – Terry Gilliam, Actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
1943 – Billie Jean King, Tennis player and sportscaster
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress
1961 – Mariel Hemingway, Actress
IN MEMORY
1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate
1916 – Jack London, Novelist and journalist
1955 – Shemp Howard, Actor and comedian
1963 – John F. Kennedy, Lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States
1963 – C. S. Lewis, British writer, critic and Christian apologist
1980 – Mae West, American stage and film actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.