February 4, 2024
QUOTE
If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.
--Alice Cooper
BIRTHDAYS
1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer
1902 – Charles Lindbergh, Pilot and explorer
1913 – Rosa Parks, Civil rights activist
1948 – Alice Cooper, Singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1983 – Karen Carpenter, Singer
1987 – Liberace, Singer-songwriter and pianist
2012 – Florence Green, English soldier
2016 – Edgar Mitchell, Captain, pilot, and astronaut
2018 – John Mahoney, Actor, voice artist, and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic.[8] It would be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six breakaway U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.