January 25, 2024

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QUOTE

The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

--Vince Lombardi

BIRTHDAYS

1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet
1941 Buddy Baker, Legendary NASCAR driver and sportscaster

IN MEMORY

1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)

IN ON THIS DAY

1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1955 – Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
1918 – The Ukrainian People’s Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.

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