Feb 7
QUOTE
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
BIRTHDAYS
1802 – Louisa Jane Hall, American poet
1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic
1960 – James Spader, American actor
IN MEMORY
1938 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, Founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
2019 – Frank Robinson, Baseball player, and manager
IN ON THIS DAY
1789 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague starting the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.