September 24, 2023
QUOTE
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
BIRTHDAYS
1564 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator
1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Novelist and short story writer
1920 – Richard Bong, Soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
1936 – Jim Henson, Puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets
1948 – Phil Hartman, Actor and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1572 – Túpac Amaru, the last Sapa Inca of the Neo-Inca State, the final remaining independent part of the Inca Empire. He was executed by the Spanish following a months-long pursuit.
1982 – Sarah Churchill, English actress
1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter
1991 – Dr. Seuss, Children’s book writer, poet, and illustrator
2016 – Buckwheat Zydeco, Accordionist and bandleader
IN ON THIS DAY
1852 – The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles from Paris to Trappes.
1869 – Gold prices plummet after United States President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1957 – President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.