February 7, 2024
QUOTE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
--Charles Dickens
BIRTHDAYS
1802 – Louisa Jane Hall, poet
1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic
1960 – James Spader, Actor
IN MEMORY
1938 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, Founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
2019 – Frank Robinson, Baseball player, and manager
IN ON THIS DAY
1789 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague starting the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.