February 20, 2022
QUOTE
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
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BIRTHDAYS
1726 – William Prescott, American Colonel
1927 – Sidney Poitier, Actor, director, and diplomat
1963 – Charles Barkley, Basketball player, sportscaster and one heck of an Auburn Tiger.
IN MEMORY
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, Son of Abraham Lincoln
1900 – Washakie, Native American tribal leader
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Founder of Lamborghini
IN ON THIS DAY
1521 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets out from Spain for Florida.
1905 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts’s mandatory smallpox vaccination program.
1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to initiate the repeal federal prohibition.