February 20, 2023
QUOTE
I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’
--Charles Barkley
BIRTHDAYS
1726 – William Prescott, American colonel
1927 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat
1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
IN MEMORY
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, Son of Abraham Lincoln
1900 – Washakie, Native American tribal leader
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Founder of Lamborghini
IN ON THIS DAY
1521 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets out from Spain for Florida.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1905 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts’s mandatory smallpox vaccination program.
1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.[8]
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O’Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.