February 2, 2024
QUOTE
Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat – that’s damaging of you!
--Tommy Smothers
BIRTHDAYS
1585 – Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’s only son
1937 – Tom Smothers, Comedian, actor, and activist
1947 – Farrah Fawcett, Actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor
1979 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player
1996 – Gene Kelly, Actor, singer, dancer, and director
2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer
IN ON THIS DAY
1645 – Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.[3]
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe’s adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1913 – Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1943 – The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
1989 – The last Soviet armored column leaves Kabul.