Jan 31
QUOTE
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better …I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.
--Johnny Cash
BIRTHDAYS
1872 Zane Grey, American author
1902 Tallulah Bankhead, American actress
1947 Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
IN MEMORY
1969 Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master
1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures
IN ON THIS DAY
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery.
1915 Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia in WW1.
1949 These Are My Children airs in NBC as the first television daytime soap opera.