January 7, 2024
QUOTE
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
--Nikola Tesla
BIRTHDAYS
1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States
1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family
1957 – Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
1963 – Rand Paul, American politician and physician
1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor[
1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
IN MEMORY
1536 – Catherine of Aragon
1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer
1988 – Trevor Howard, English actor
2020 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.[
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.[
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.