February 16
QUOTE
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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BIRTHDAYS
1909 – Hugh Beaumont, Actor and director
1935 – Sonny Bono, Actor, singer, and politician
IN MEMORY
1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1974 – John Garand, Designer of the M1 Garand Rifle
IN ON THIS DAY
1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1945 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton sets out on the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1968 –The first 911 emergency telephone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.