Feb 6
QUOTE
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--Oscar Wilde
BIRTHDAYS
1895 Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach.
1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist.
IN MEMORY
1991 Danny Thomas, American actor, producer, and humanitarian.
IN ON THIS DAY
1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom.
1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1976 In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.