On This Day In History
- 1809 - Louis Braille is born
- 1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government.
- 1892 - Helen Hull is born. She was the director of Henry Street Settlement House, and then appointed by FDR to the Committee on Economic Security which created the Social Security Act of 1935 and Unemployment Compensation
- 1896 - Utah becomes the 45th state admitted to the Union.
- 1911 - Charlotte E. Ray, the first female Black law school graduate, died.
- 1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln, also wrote The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson.
- 1965 - L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address.
- 1969 - The Congressional Black Caucus is formed
- 1974 - President Nixon refused to hand over tapes.
- 1995 - GOP wins control of Congress for first time in 40 years.
- 2001 - Michael Jordan scores his 30,000th career point.
- 2007 - Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female Speaker of the U.S. House.
Quote of the Day
âI believe in a future for woman...I do not believe that she was made merely for a wife, a mother, a cook, and a housekeeper. These callings, however honorable--and no one doubts that they are so--are not the sum of her capabilities."
âOrson F. Whitney, Utah State Constitutional Convention, 1895
On the Punny Side
There is a special species of bird that is really good at holding stuff together.
They are called velcrows.
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