February 12, 2023
QUOTE
The best thing about humor is that it shows people they are not alone.
--Sid Caesar
BIRTHDAYS
1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist
1915 – Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor
1958 – Outback Jack, Australian-American wrestler
IN MEMORY
2000 – Tom Landry, Football player and coach
2014 – Sid Caesar, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration.
1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs.
1915 – The first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.