November 29, 2023
QUOTE
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
--C. S. Lewis
BIRTHDAYS
1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist
1882 – Henri Fabre, French pilot and engineer
1898 – C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic
1899 – Emma Morano, Italian super-centenarian, oldest Italian person ever (d. 2017)
IN MEMORY
1950 – Walter Beech, Aviator and early aviation entrepreneur
1981 – Natalie Wood, Actress
1986 – Cary Grant, Actor
1991 – Ralph Bellamy, Actor
2001 – George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and music producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
1952 – U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961 – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space by NASA. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1972 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.