Phil Lesh, one of the founding members and bassist for the
band Grateful Dead, has died. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked
him as the 11th greatest bass player.
His death was confirmed on his official Instagram page, which
said he "passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded
by his family and full of love." He was 84 years old.
Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was
a luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan.
The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899,
and the last Packard’s were built in South Bend, Indiana,
in 1958.
James Ward Packard William Doud Packard
(1863 – 1928) (1861 – 1923)
On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth,
England, bound for the Americas with 102 passengers. The
ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists—half
religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been
authorized to settle by the British crown.
However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the
Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims”
reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first
permanent European settlement in New England in late
December.
(FOX NEWS) – Milton Snavely Hershey, a German-speaking
Mennonite farmer who turned his passion for confections
into a symbol of American affluence and goodwill, was
born in Derry Township, Penn., on this day in history,
Sept. 13, 1857.
"Milton Hershey was the rarest of men — both a dreamer
and a builder," notes his biography at the Candy Hall of
Fame, into which the chocolatier was inducted in 1972.
He founded both the Hershey Chocolate Co. in 1894 and
the Milton Hershey School in 1909.
In the East End of London on July 2, 1865, revivalist preacher
William Booth and his wife Catherine established the Christian
Mission, later known as the Salvation Army.
Determined to wage war against the evils of poverty and
religious indifference with military efficiency, Booth modeled
his Methodist sect after the British army, labeling uniformed
ministers as “officers” and new members as “recruits.”
