February 26, 2023
QUOTE
it’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
--Johnny Cash
BIRTHDAYS
1829 – Levi Strauss, Founds Levi Strauss & Co.
1846 – Buffalo Bill Cody, Soldier and hunter
1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, Co-creator of Corn Flakes
1932 – Johnny Cash, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN MEMORY
1989 – Roy Eldridge, Trumpet player
2000 – George L. Street III, Captain, Medal of Honor recipient
2005 – Jef Raskin, Creator of Macintosh
IN ON THIS DAY
1616 – Galileo Galilei is banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson establishes the Grand Canyon National Park.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.