February 26, 2022
QUOTE
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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BIRTHDAYS
1829 – Levi Strauss, Founds Levi Strauss & Co.
1846 – Buffalo Bill Cody Soldier and hunter
1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, Co-creator of Corn Flakes
1932 – Johnny Cash, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN MEMORY
1989 – Roy Eldridge, Trumpet player
2000 – George L. Street III, Captain, Medal of Honor recipient
2005 – Jef Raskin, Creator of Macintosh
IN ON THIS DAY
1616 – Galileo Galilei is banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson establishes the Grand Canyon National Park.