October 28, 2023
QUOTE
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
--Bill Gates
BIRTHDAYS
1754 – John Laurens, American soldier
1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist
1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace
1939 – Alice Brady, American actress
2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
2022 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
IN ON THIS DAY
1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
1726 – The novel Gulliver’s Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.