February 27, 2024
QUOTE
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
--Hugo Black
BIRTHDAYS
272 – Constantine the Great
1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
1886 – Hugo Black, American Army Captain, Supreme Court Justice
1902 – John Steinbeck, Author and Nobel Prize laureate
IN MEMORY
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Politician and diplomat
1993 – Lillian Gish, Actress
2003 – Fred Rogers, Presbyterian minister and television personality
IN ON THIS DAY
1782 –The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1864 – The first Union prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee.