September 18, 2023
QUOTE
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.
--Greta Garbo
BIRTHDAYS
1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress
1933 – Robert Blake, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1933 – Fred Willard, Actor and comedian
1951 – Ben Carson, Neurosurgeon, author, and politician
1951 – Dee Dee Ramone, Singer-songwriter and bass player
IN MEMORY
1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō
1970 – Jimi Hendrix, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1944 – Robert G. Cole, Colonel, Medal of Honor recipient
2004 – Russ Meyer, Director, producer, and screenwriter
2013 – Ken Norton, Boxer
IN ON THIS DAY
1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City.
1906 – The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
1944 –The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun’yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
1945 – The Pacific Command Group moves their general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.