February 18, 2023
QUOTE
I don’t want to argue with my wife about her car – or my driving.
--Dale Earnhardt
BIRTHDAYS
1516 – Mary I of England
1925 – George Kennedy, Actor
1968 – Molly Ringwald, Actress
IN MEMORY
1981 – Jack Northrop, Engineer and founder the Northrop Corporation
2001 – Dale Earnhardt, Seven time NASCAR champion
IN ON THIS DAY
1861 –Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery Alabama.
1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly and be milked in a fixed-wing aircraft.
1979 – Richard Petty wins Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race that was televised live flag-to-flag.