Feb 1
QUOTE
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
BIRTHDAYS
1894 John Ford, American director and producer
1901 Clark Gable-American actor
1924 Richard Hooker-American novelist
IN MEMORY
Space Shuttle Columbia Crew
Michael P. Anderson-American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
David M. Brown-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Kalpana Chawla-Indian-American engineer and astronaut
Laurel Clark-American captain, surgeon, and astronaut
Rick Husband-American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
William C. McCool-American commander, pilot, and astronaut
Ilan Ramon-Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1976 George Whipple, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
IN ON THIS DAY
1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan.
1793 France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1861 Texas secedes from the United States and joins the Confederacy a week later.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry