OCtober 29, 2022
QUOTE
There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
--Bob Ross
BIRTHDAYS
1942 – Bob Ross, Painter and television host
1946 – Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and activist
1948 – Kate Jackson, Actress, director, and producer
1971 – Winona Ryder, Actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
1804 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher
2013 – John Spence, Soldier and engineer
2019 – John Witherspoon, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1787 – Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ’29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
2015 – China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.