September 8, 2022
QUOTE
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
--Peter Sellers
BIRTHDAYS
1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1922 – Sid Caesar, Comic actor and writer
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian
1932 – Patsy Cline, Singer-songwriter and pianist
1938 – Kenichi Horie, Japanese sailor
IN MEMORY
1780 – Enoch Poor, American general
1935 – Carl Weiss, Physician
1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer and manager
1970 – Percy Spencer, Engineer, invented the microwave oven
1977 – Zero Mostel, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida’s first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final “golden spike” in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1941 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center.
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.