Thought for October 17, 2024
1831: Felix Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto premiers 1860: First British Open 1904: Bank of Italy opens in San Francisco--now Bank of America 1919: RCA formed as subsidiary of General Electric 1920: Chicago Bears play their first NFL game 1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee 1939: "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" released 1957: "Jailhouse Rock" premiers in Memphis 1963: The Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand." 1968: "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen released and introduces the great car chase. The Mustang he drove was sold at auction in 2020 for $3.4 million. 1979: Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Prize 1989: 6.9 earthquake cancels game 3 of the World Series and kills 67 2017: George Soros donates $18 billion to the Open Society Foundation--source of many bad things Born: Arthur Miller, Rita Hayworth, Jimmy Breslin, Evel Knievel, Mae Jemison [first black woman in space], Alan Jackson, Ernie Els, Eminem Died: Chopin, Julia Ward