October 17, 2022
QUOTE
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it
--Evel Knievel
BIRTHDAYS
1902 – Irene Ryan, Actress
1920 – Montgomery Clift, Actor
1938 – Evel Knievel, Motorcycle rider and stuntman
1947 – Michael McKean, Singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1948 – Margot Kidder, Actress
IN MEMORY
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, Poet and songwriter
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, Singer and actor
1998 – Joan Hickson, Actress
2013 – Lou Scheimer, Animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company
IN ON THIS DAY
1091 – A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1604 – Kepler’s Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1943 – The Burma Railway is completed.