February 8, 2024
QUOTE
When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you’re getting old.
--Nick Nolte
BIRTHDAYS
1850 – Kate Chopin, Author
1931 – James Dean, Actor
1941 – Nick Nolte, Actor and producer
1953 – Mary Steenburgen, Actress
1955 – John Grisham, Author
IN MEMORY
1725 – Peter the Great, Russian Emperor
1956 – Connie Mack, Baseball player and manager
2000 – Derrick Thomas, Football player
2020 – Robert Conrad, Actor
2021 – Marty Schottenheimer, Football player and coach
IN ON THIS DAY
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of being involved in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.