September 11, 2022
QUOTE
No friendship is an accident.
--O. Henry
BIRTHDAYS
1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish surgeon and explorer
1816 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument
1862 – O. Henry, Short story writer
1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic
1953 – Tommy Shaw, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Kristy McNichol, Actress
IN MEMORY
1956 – Billy Bishop, Canadian colonel, pilot and WW1 ace
1987 – Lorne Greene, Actor
1994 – Jessica Tandy, Actress
2003 – John Ritter, Actor
2009 – Jim Carroll, Author, poet and musician
IN ON THIS DAY
9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.
1609 – Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.
1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR’s administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1997 – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2001 – The September 11 attacks, killing 2,996 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda.