October 21, 2023
QUOTE
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
--Horatio Nelson
BIRTHDAYS
1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic
1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize
1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet player, composer, and bandleader
1941 – Steve Cropper, Guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
1956 – Carrie Fisher, Actress and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1805 – John Cooke, English captain
1805 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral
1969 – Jack Kerouac, Novelist and poet
2012 – George McGovern, Historian, lieutenant, and politician
IN ON THIS DAY
1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
1824 – Portland cement is patented.
1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1984 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers’ Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.