February 3, 2024
QUOTE
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world – no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
Woodrow Wilson
--Woodrow Wilson
BIRTHDAYS
1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd, Gangster
1918 – Joey Bishop, Actor and producer (d. 2007)
1945 – Bob Griese, Football player and sportscaster
1950 – Morgan Fairchild, Actress
IN MEMORY
1924 – Woodrow Wilson, Historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
1959 – The Big Bopper, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959– Buddy Holly, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959– Ritchie Valens, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
1917 – The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.