October 22, 2023
QUOTE
If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
--Curly Howard
BIRTHDAYS
1903 – Curly Howard, Comedian and vaudevillian
1938 – Christopher Lloyd, Actor, comedian and producer
1942 – Bobby Fuller, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Jeff Goldblum, Actor and producer
1962 – Bob Odenkirk, Actor and comedian
IN MEMORY
1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, gangster
1982 – Richard Hugo, American poet
1992 – Cleavon Little, Actor
2021 – Peter Scolari, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1633 – The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 – Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 131⁄2 hours before burning out).
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1962 – President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.