February 5, 2024
QUOTE
Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings – and they will always come back.
--Leon Leonwood Bean
BIRTHDAYS
1919 – Red Buttons, Actor
1934 – Hank Aaron, Baseball player
1942 – Roger Staubach, Football player, sportscaster, and businessman
1947 – Darrell Waltrip, Race car driver and sportscaster
IN MEMORY
1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, Businessman, founded L.L.Bean
1969 – Thelma Ritter, Actress
1991 – Dean Jagger, Actor
2020 – Kirk Douglas, Actor
2021 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
IN ON THIS DAY
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.[16]
1901 – J. P. Morgan forms $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller’s iron mines and Andrew Carnegie’s entire steel business.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.