Feb 5
QUOTE
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
--Willie Nelson
BIRTHDAYS
1934 Hank Aaron, American baseball player.
1942 Roger Staubach, American football player.
1947 Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR driver and sportscaster.
IN MEMORY
2020 Kirk Douglas, American actor.
2021 Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
IN ON THIS DAY
62 Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
1869 The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1901 J. P. Morgan forms $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller’s iron mines and Andrew Carnegie’s entire steel business.
1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.