February 14 2022 Quote of the day
QUOTE
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care. The only thing lacking is freedom.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
BIRTHDAYS
1882 – John Barrymore, Actor
1894 – Jack Benny, Actor and producer
1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, Trade union leader
IN MEMORY
1400 – Richard II, King of England
1969 – Vito Genovese, Mob boss
IN ON THIS DAY
1778 – The U.S. flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time., when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte fires a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th State.
2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students.