September 23, 2023
QUOTE
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.
--Chief Dan George
BIRTHDAYS
1920 – Mickey Rooney, Singer, director, and producer
1930 – Ray Charles, Singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
1947 – Mary Kay Place, Actress
1949 – Bruce Springsteen, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Jason Alexander, Actor, singer, and voice artist
IN MEMORY
1917 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet
1987 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director
IN ON THIS DAY
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land’s End.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.
2019 – The British travel company, Thomas Cook Group, declares bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs and 600,000 customers stranded abroad. Hotels throughout the world are stuck with £338 million (U.S. $415 million) in unpaid bills.