October 31, 2023
QUOTE
I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, ‘let’s see what I have left.’ And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
--Dale Evans
BIRTHDAYS
1795 – John Keats, English poet
1912 – Dale Evans, singer-songwriter and actress
1930 – Michael Collins, general, pilot, and astronaut
1936 – Michael Landon, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – John Candy, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1988 – John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter
1993 – River Phoenix, Actor and singer
2020 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1517 – Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
1941 – The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1999 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.