September 16, 2023
QUOTE
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
--Allen Funt
BIRTHDAYS
1386 – Henry V of England
1891 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany
1914 – Allen Funt, Director, producer, and screenwriter
1925 – B.B. King, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1927 – Peter Falk, Actor
1949 – Ed Begley Jr., Actor and environmental activist
IN MEMORY
1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer
1824 – Louis XVIII of France
1965 – Fred Quimby, Animator and producer
2016 – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman
IN ON THIS DAY
1779 – During the American Revolutionary War the Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
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SEPTEMBER 17
QUOTE
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I’ll do the best I can.
Anne Bancroft
BIRTHDAYS
1854 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company
1859 – Billy the Kid, American gunman
1923 – Hank Williams, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Anne Bancroft, Actress
1948 – John Ritter, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1858 – Dred Scott, American slave
2009 – Dick Durock, Stuntman and actor
2013 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman
2020 – Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex
ON THIS DAY
1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
1916 –Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
1976 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.