January 29, 2024
QUOTE
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
--Anton Chekhov
BIRTHDAYS
1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
1940 Katharine Ross, American actress and author
IN MEMORY
1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.[
1980 – The Rubik’s Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. In Earl’s Court, London.