"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer."
— Ronald Reagan
January 20, 2012
January 20, 2012
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
— Audrey Hepburn
January 20, 2012
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
— John F. Kennedy
January 20, 2012
Today in history, on January 20th…
- Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian National Council with 88.1 percent of the popular vote, becoming the first democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people in history, 1996
- One of America’s most beloved actresses, Audrey Hepburn, dies at the age of 63, 1993
- Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States, 1981
- Minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis, 1981
- Richard Nixon is inaugurated as president of the United States, 1969
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, 1961
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term, 1945
January 20, 2012
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
— John F. Kennedy
January 20, 2012
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 19, 2012
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
— Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 2012
"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."
— Robert E. Lee
January 19, 2012
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
— Robert E. Lee
January 19, 2012
Today in history, on January 19th…
- Beijing, China, the capital city of the planet’s most populous nation, gets its first drive-through McDonald’s restaurant, 2007
- Production begins on Toy Story, the first full-length feature film created by the pioneering Pixar Animation Studios, 1993
- The University of Notre Dame men’s basketball team defeats UCLA 71-70, in South Bend, Indiana, snapping UCLA’s record-setting 88-game winning streak, 1974
- Following the death of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi becomes head of the Congress Party and thus prime minister of India, 1966
- Poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1809
- Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1807
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Two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had technically ended the hostilities of the War of 1812, American forces under Andrew Jackson defeated a...
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Frig yes I’m going there!
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cwnl:
Sunrise, Moonrise
by Robert Pölzl
For many Europeans, the Sun and New Moon rose together on January 4th of 2011 in a partial...
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Happy Birthday to 13th President Millard Fillmore, January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874
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James Dean on the bongos.
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World War I draft registration card for silent film star and prototypical cowboy actor Tom Mix, born January 6, 1880.
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