October 3, 2023
QUOTE
It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
--Woody Guthrie
BIRTHDAYS
1790 – John Ross, American tribal chief
1941 – Chubby Checker, Singer-songwriter
1949 – Lindsey Buckingham, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1838 – Black Hawk, American tribal leader
1867 – Elias Howe, Engineer, invented the sewing machine
1967 – Woody Guthrie, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1999 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony
2004 – Janet Leigh, Actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1789 – George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.