September 15, 2022
QUOTE
Let me explain something you already know. I’m from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I’ve seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.
--Tommy Lee Jones
BIRTHDAYS
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, Novelist, short story writer, and historian
1903 – Roy Acuff, Singer-songwriter and fiddler
1907 – Fay Wray, Actress
1927 – Norm Crosby, Comedian and actor
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Oliver Stone, Director, screenwriter, and producer
IN MEMORY
1940 – William B. Bankhead, Lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109
2004 – Johnny Ramone, Guitarist and songwriter
2007 – Brett Somers, Actress and singer
IN ON THIS DAY
1588 – The so-called “Invincible Armada” sent by Catholic King Philip II of Spain to overthrow Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England has been handed a crushing defeat in the English Channel.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1916 – Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps’ 1st Marine Division and the United States Army’s 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.