Feb 8
QUOTE
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
--Mark Twain
BIRTHDAYS
1850 – Kate Chopin, American author
1931 – James Dean, American actor
1955 – John Grisham, American author
IN MEMORY
1725 – Peter the Great, Russian Emperor
1956 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager
2000 – Derrick Thomas, American football player
IN ON THIS DAY
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of being involved in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.