February 6, 2024
QUOTE
If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
--Bob Marley
BIRTHDAYS
1665 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
1756 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States
1895 – Babe Ruth, Baseball player and coach
1911 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States
1931 – Rip Torn, American actor
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN MEMORY
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer
1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster
1991 – Danny Thomas, Actor, producer, and humanitarian
IN ON THIS DAY
60 – The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday).
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.