October 15, 2023
QUOTE
MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
--Lee Iacocca
BIRTHDAYS
70 BC – Virgil, Roman poet
1924 – Lee Iacocca, Businessman and author
1937 – Linda Lavin, Actress and singer
1943 – Penny Marshall, Actress, director, and producer
IN MEMORY
1964 – Cole Porter, Composer and songwriter
1983 – Pat O’Brien, Actor
2010 – Johnny Sheffield, Actor
2018 – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
IN ON THIS DAY
1815 – Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1863 – The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1917 – World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.