Feb 10 Daily
QUOTE
When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn’t come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he’d made and a note that said, ‘John, I’d love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.’
--John Prine
BIRTHDAYS
1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., Actor
1950 – Mark Spitz, Champion swimmer
IN MEMORY
1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author
1992 – Alex Haley, Soldier and author
2010 – Charles Wilson, Politician
IN ON THIS DAY
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.