Feb 3
QUOTE
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
--Kris Kristofferson
BIRTHDAYS
1904 Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster
1918 Joey Bishop, American actor and producer
1945 Bob Griese, American football player and sportscaster
1950 Morgan Fairchild, American actress
IN MEMORY
1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate.
1959 The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1959 Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1959 Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
IN ON THIS DAY
1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1917 American enters into World War I when relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
1959 Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.