January 31, 2024
QUOTE
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
--Tallulah Bankhead
BIRTHDAYS
1872 – Zane Grey, Author
1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
1947 – Nolan Ryan, Baseball player
IN MEMORY
1969 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master
1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures
IN ON THIS DAY
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submits it to the states for ratification
1915 – Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.