Jan 30
QUOTE
If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
--Payne Stewart
BIRTHDAYS
1951 Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter.
1957 Payne Stewart, Golfer
1937 Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
IN MEMORY
1838 Osceola, American tribal leader
1951 Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and founder of Porsche
IN ON THIS DAY
1649 Charles I of England is executed in London
1835 The first assassination attempt against a President of the United States. Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot President Andrew Jackson but fails.
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1968 The Tet Offensive is launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army