October 19, 2022
QUOTE
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
--John Lithgow
BIRTHDAYS
1932 – Robert Reed, Actor
1940 – Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor
1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – John Lithgow, Actor
1966 – Jon Favreau, Actor, director, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1897 – George Pullman, Engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company
1905 – Virgil Earp, Marshal
1997 – Glen Buxton, Guitarist and songwriter
2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor
2010 – Tom Bosley, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1987 – On Black Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.