October 25, 2023
QUOTE
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you’re born and doesn’t stop till you sit down to write a song.
--Roger Miller
BIRTHDAYS
1864 – John Francis Dodge, Businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company
1888 – Richard E. Byrd, Admiral and pilot
1912 – Minnie Pearl, Entertainer and philanthropist
1941 – Helen Reddy, Singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Craig Robinson, Actor and singer
1984 – Katy Perry, Singer-songwriter and actress
IN MEMORY
1047 – Magnus the Good, Norwegian king
1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author
1992 – Roger Miller, Singer-songwriter and actor
1993 – Vincent Price, Actor
1999 – Payne Stewart, Golfer
IN ON THIS DAY
1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
1812 – The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O’Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship’s own malfunctioning torpedo.
1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart.
2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.