February 21
QUOTE
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Voltaire
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BIRTHDAYS
1397 – Isabella of Portugal
1921 – Richard T. Whitcomb, Aeronautical engineer
1927 – Erma Bombeck, Journalist and author
IN MEMORY
1437 – James I of Scotland
1984 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
2019 – Peter Tork, Musician and actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1804 – The first self-propelled steam locomotive makes its first run in Wales.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.