January 12, 2024
QUOTE
Champions aren’t made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.
--Joe Frazier
BIRTHDAYS
1876 – Jack London, Novelist and journalist
1905 – Tex Ritter, Actor and singer
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer
1951 – Kirstie Alley, Actress and producer
1954 – Howard Stern, Radio host, actor, and author
IN MEMORY
1944 – Lance C. Wade, Commander and pilot
1976 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (
2003 – Maurice Gibb, Manx-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2007 – Alice Coltrane, Pianist and composer
2022 – Ronnie Spector, Singer
IN ON THIS DAY
1616 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1991 – An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.