October 8, 2023
QUOTE
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.
--Eddie Rickenbacker
BIRTHDAYS
1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, Soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
1939 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1943 – Chevy Chase, Comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1949 – Sigourney Weaver, Actress and producer
1970 – Matt Damon, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1594 – Ishikawa Goemon, ninja and thief of Japan
1793 – John Hancock, Merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts
1983 – Joan Hackett, Actress
2011 – Al Davis, Football player, coach, and manager
IN ON THIS DAY
1871 – Poor land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.
1918 – Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.