Thought for Today

 1692: First people accused of witchcraft in Salem 1904: Theodore Roosevelt appoints Panama Canal Commission to complete the canal 1940: Hattie McDaniel is first African American to win an Oscar--"Gone with the Wind" 1952: Dick Button wins his fifth straight world title in figure skating 1960: First "Playboy Club" opens in Chicago 1980: Gordie Howe is first NHL player to score 800 goals Born: Rossini, Ann Lee [founded Shakers], William Harvey Carney [first black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor], Tony Robbins,  Died: Melvin Purvis, Davy Jones, Pat Garrett [lawman] Thought: Well, here we are on a date that only comes around every four years. If I had only been born on the 29th, I'd be looking forward to my 20th birthday. We all know the reason for the 29th--our 365-day calendar and the earth's rotation around the sun get out of sync. Makes me wonder if I need to set aside a day to get back in sync with the Lord. Over time, do I slowly get slightly out

Some of you called yesterday to see if I had a mini-stroke because I republished a Thought that was published on February 13. Yesterday afternoon, I published the Thought for February 13 that should have be available two weeks ago. No, no stroke. I create the post and the history section sometimes weeks in advance. Right now that part of the post is ready through most of March. Most of the time I am writing the body of the Thought neither that morning or the night before. Occasionally, a sermon, something I read, something that the Lord says during my quiet time, will trigger a thought that I want to write down immediately. That is what happened with the duplicate thought that you saw yesterday. I wrote the thought for the 13th, then reflected on the pastor's sermon in colossians and pulled up the next history section that I had already prepared--turned out to be February 27. But then, I hit the publish button for that thought rather than the thought I had prepared for the 13th. Lo

 1633: Galileo arrives in rome to be tried for professing that the earth revolves around the sun 1826: American Temperance Society forms 1866: Jesse James robs his first bank--Liberty Missouri 1917: Mata Hari arrested 1920: National Negro Baseball League organizes 1935: Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of Lindbergh kidnapping 1957: Southern Christian Leadership Council forms in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as President 1971: Spiro Agnew hits gold ball into crowd injuring 2 1976: Dorthy Hamill wins Olympic Gold 1980: Lake Placid Olympics open--Do you believe in miracles? 2000: Last "Peanuts" comic strip--Charles Schulz died yesterday Born: Thomas Malthus [Died in 1766 after developing a theory that population will always exceed the food supply so population control is required], Bess TRuman, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Eddie Robinson, Kim Novak, George Seagal, Jerry Springer, Mike Krzyzewski, Peter Gabriel, Randy Moss Died: Catherine Howard, Richard Wagner, David Janssen, Way

Corrections from yesterday--Tom Landry fired in 1988; Grand Teton NP founded in 1929  1670: Jews expelled from Austria 1693: First women's magazine---"Ladies Mercury of London" 1813: First federal vaccination legislation 1814: Beethoven's Eighth premiers 1827: First Mardi Gras in New Orleans 1872: Charlotte Ray is the first African American lawyer in the U.S. 1879: Saccharin discovered 1940: Carbon 14 discovered [carbon dating] 1951: 22nd Amendment ratified--limits President to 2 terms 1974: First "People Magazine" 1981: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony and Ivory" 1996: First appearance of Pokemon in a video game 2020: Dow has largest point loss in history--1,190.95 points Born: Constantine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hugo Black, William Demarest ["My Three Sons"], Marian Anderson, Gene Sarazen, John Steinbeck, Joan Bennett, John Connally [Texas Governor], Joanne Woodward, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Berry, Ralph Nader, Tony

 1907: Royal Oil and Shell merge to form BP Petroleum 1919: Arcadia National Park formed [originally Lafayette NP]; Grand Canyon National Park formed 1919: Grand Teton National Park formed 1933: Groundbreaking for the Golden Gate Bridge 1935: RADAR first demonstrated 1944: First female Navy Captain--Sue Dauser 1962: Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public transportation 1964: Robert Penn Warren named first U.S. Poet Laureate 1969: Cowboys fire Tom Landry 1993: Truck bomb explodes in garage of the World Trade Center Born: Christopher Marlowe, Victor Hugo, Levi Strauss, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Harvey Kellogg, Herbert Henry Dow, Grover Cleveland Alexander, William Frawley ["I Love Lucy"], Jackie Gleason, Tony Randall, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash,  Die: Richard Gatling, Earl Lloyd [first black player in the NBA], Joseph Wapner [People's Court] Thought: We are in a presidential election year. Every day there is "news" about the leading candidates. Reading Ecclesiast

 1582: Pope Gregory announces a new calendar 1803: Marbury v. Madison. First case in which a law was ruled unconstitutional 1868: First parade with floats--Mardi Gras in Mobile 1930: Harry Ironside called to pastor Moody Church 1981: Prince Charles anounces his engagement to Diana Spencer 2008: Fidel Castro retires Born: Wilhelm Grimm, Honus Wagner, Chester Nimitz, Abe Vigoda, John Vernon, Phil Knight, Steve Jobs, Paula Zahn, Zach Johnson,  Died: Robert Fulton, Charles Monroe Sheldon [wrote "In His Steps" from whcih we got the phrase "what would Jesus do?"], Malcom Forbes, George Gobel, Dinah Shore, Don Knotts, Dennis Weaver, Jan Berenstain [Berenstain Bears], Harold Ramis Thought: Pondering Ecclesiastes 7:21 today. I got stuck on this short thought--do not take seriously all words that are spoken. Wisdom is the ability to know which words to take seriously. How do I determine which words to take seriously. First I think about whose words they are. Who spoke these w

 1455: Gutenberg prints his first Bible 1758: Jonathan Edwards receives a smallpox vaccination, contracts the disease and dies in March 1821: First U.S. pharmacy college formed in Philadelphia 1836: Siege of the Alamo begins 1886: Times of London publishes the first classified ad 1896: Tootsie Roll introduced 1904: U.S. buys control of Panama Canal 1940: "Pinocchio" released 1945: Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima 1954: First mass inoculation with the Salk vaccine 1967: 25th Amendment adopted--Presidential succession 1985: Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game 2020: First Covid outbreak in Europe--152 cases in Italy Born: Samuel Pepys, George Frederic Handel, John Sutter, W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Tibbetts [Enola Gay], Tom Osborne, Peter Fonda, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Michael Dell, Dakota Fanning Died: Polycarp, John Keats, John Quincy Adams, Edward Elgar ["Pomp and Circumstances"], Stan Laurel, James Herriot ["All Creatures Great and Small

 1349: Jews expelled from Zurich 1819: Adams-Onis Treaty cedes Florida to the U.S. 1854: First meeting of the Republican Party 1865: Tennessee adopts new constitution abolishing slavery 1876: Johns Hopkins University opens 1879: Frank W. Woolworth opens first 5 & Dime store [fails] 1893: First Iron Bowl--Auburn beats Alabama 1936: Sonja Henie wins 10th straight World Figure Skating title 1959: First Daytona 500--Lee Petty wins 1978: Two propane tankers explode in Waverly TN killing 15 1980: Miracle on Ice--Lake Placid Born: George Washington, Robert Baden-Powell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charlie Finley, Ted Kennedy, Sparky Anderson, Tommy Aaron, Julius Irving, Bill Frist, Amy Alcott, Steve Irwin, Vijay Singh, Drew Barrymore: Died: Amerigo Vespucci, Andy Warhol, Grandpa Jones, Wesley Clark, Nanette Fabray Thought: In my Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:10-20 is headed "The Folly of Riches." Recall that the richest man in the world is writing this book. And is is not only the richest,

1804: First locomotive runs in Wales 1848: Marx and Engels publish the "Communist Manifesto" 1878: First telephone directory [New Harbor Connecticut [50 subscribers] 1916: Battle of Verdun 1972: Nixon is first President to visit China Born: Santa Ana, Hubert de Givenchy, Nina Simone, Alan Rickman,  Died: James I, Anne Frank, Malcolm X, Tim Horton Thought: Reading in Ecclesiastes again this morning--5:1-9. Solomon gives some good counsel in chapters 5-6. Here is what the Lord says to me this morning from these verses: 5:1--Walk carefully, prudently. The New Testament is full of commandments concerning our walk with the Lord.  Walk by the Spirit [Galatians 5:16-25] Don't walk by the flesh, walk by and in the Spirit. This passage speaks of the fleshly walk [19-21] and the Spirit filled and guided walk [22-23]. Solomon had the same thing in mind. Walk worthy of your calling [Ephesians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:12]. The following verses tell me what a worthy walk looks like--humb

 1792: US Postal Service created 1816: Rossini's "Barber of Seville" premiers 1865: MIT forms first architectural school in US 1869: Tennessee Governor declares martial law because of the KKK 1927: Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating the Sabbath 1935: Caroline Mikkelson is first woman to land on Antarctica 1941: Polish Jews barred from public transportation 1944: "Batman and Robin" comic strip premiers 1953: August Busch buys the St. Louis Cardinals--$3.75 million 1962: John Glenn is first American to orbit earth Born: Ansel Adams, Gale Gordon, Gloria Vanderbilt, Sidney Portier, Amanda Blake [Miss Kitty, Gunsmoke], Bobby Unser, Nancy Wilson, Roger Penske, Mitch McConnell, Phil Esposito, Jennifer O'Neill, Patty Hearst, Charles Barkley, Cindy Crawford, Rihanna Died: Frederick Douglas, Robert Peary, Chester Nimitz, Katherine Kuhlman, Dick York, Feruccio Lamborghini, Gene Siskel, Sandra Dee, Curt Gowdy Thought: A couple of weeks ago, Jeopardy had a

 1878: Edison granted patent for phonograph 1884: Tornado outbreak kills 800 in the South 1913: First prize placed in a Cracker Jack's Box 1942: FDR orders Japanese Americans interned 1963: Betty Friedan publishes "The Feminine Mystique" 1986: MIR space station launched Born: Copernicus, Merel Oberon, Eddie Acaro, Carson McCullers, Lee Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Amy Tan, Jeff Daniels, Roger Goodell, Seal, Betty Wiseman Died: Miles Coverdale, Elizabeth Clephane ["Beneath the Cross of Jesus"]. George Papanikolaou [Invented the PAP smear], Grandpa Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Harper Lee I have mentioned before that "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" is one of my favorites.  Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land A home within the wilderness A rest upon the way from the burning of the noontide heat and the burden of the day And from my stricken heart with tears Two wonders I confess The wonders of redeeming

 1621: Myles Standish elected the first commander of the Plymouth Colony 1776: First volume of "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" is published 1791: John Wesley becomes ill---dies March 2 1801: House of Representatives breaks Electoral College tie and elects Thomas Jefferson 1876: Sardines first canned 1897: Organization of Mothers forms [PTA] 1904: Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" premiers 1933: First edition of "Newsweek" 1936: First comic superhero--The Phantom 1967: Beatles release "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" 2008: Furious that his wife has become a Christian, a man bribes members of the Home Guard in Sri Lanka to assassinate her pastor, Neil Edirisinghe 2014: Jimmy Fallon premiers on The Tonight Show Born: Montgomery Ward, Red Barber, Margaret Truman, Hal Holbrook, Buddy Ryan, Jim Brown, Gene Pitney, Rene Russo, Michael Jordan, Denise Richards, Paris Hilton, Ed Sheeran,  Died: Rev. James Renwick [hanged in Scotland fo

  309: Pamphillius of Caesarea is beheaded for being a Christian. He trained Eusebius, the first notable church historian. 374: Halley's comet makes its 9th recorded passage 600: Pope Gregory decrees that "God Bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze 1857: Gallaudet College for the deaf forms in Washington DC 1883: "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication  1911: The hymn "Rise Up O Men of God" is published by William Merrill 1923: Howard Carter opens King Tut's tomb 1945: US troops land on Corregidor 1959: Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba 1968: Elvis receives "Gold Record" for "How Great Thou Art" 1984: Scott Hamilton wins Olympic Gold 1985: Hezbollah founded Born: Charles Russell [founded Jehovah's Witnesses], Edgar Bergen, Hugh Beaumont ["Leave It to Beaver"], Anna Mae Hays [First female General], Vera Ellen ["White Christmas"], Sonny Bono, Carl Ichan, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, John McEnroe, Jerom

 399: Socrates is sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of youths--what if this was a crime today? 1842: First adhesive postage stamps in the U.S.--issued by a private company 1862: Grant assaults Fort Donelson 1867: "Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss premiers 1879: Women authorized to practice before the Supreme Court 1898: USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor 1903: First Teddy Bear introduced in America 1919: American Legion organizes in Paris 1933: FDR survives assassination attempt that kills the mayor of Chicago 1936: Hitler announces the Volkswagen Beetle 1941: Duke Ellington records "Take the A Train" 1950: Disney's "Cinderella" premiers 1961: U.S. Figure Skating Team killed in a plane crash at Brussels 1971: Britain abandons pence and shilling monetary system 1997: Tara Lipinski and Todd Eldridge will Figure Skating Championships in Nashville 2005: You Tube launched in the U.S. Born: Galileo, Heinrich Steinway, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Lewis Tiff

 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone 1924: Thomas Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company as International Business Machines [IBM] 1929: St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago 1931: The original "Dracula" film with Bela Lugosi released 1971: Nixon installs a secret taping system in the White House 1978: First "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments 1984: Torvill and Dean win Olympic Gold skating to Ravel's "Bolero" Born: Frederick Douglas, Jack Benny, Mickey Wright [Golf], Teller [Penn & Teller] Died: Richard II, James Cook, Willaim Blackstone, William Tecumseh Sherman,  Thought:  A couple of years ago, I wrote a thought about Valentine's Day on February 13--the 14th fell on a Sunday. Joe Cimino placed a poem on Facebook for Janice's birthday back in January. Made me think of this thought. I think it is still appropriate so with minor modifications, here it is: Did you get a card, flowers, candy,

Corrections from yesteday--Tom Landry fired in 1988; Grand Teton NP founded in 1929  1670: Jews expelled from Austria 1693: First women's magazine---"Ladies Mercury of London" 1813: First federal vaccination legislation 1814: Beethoven's Eighth premiers 1827: First Mardi Gras in New Orleans 1872: Charlotte Ray is the first African American lawyer in the U.S. 1879: Saccharin discovered 1940: Carbon 14 discovered [carbon dating] 1951: 22nd Amendment ratified--limits President to 2 terms 1974: First "People Magazine" 1981: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony and Ivory" 1996: First appearance of Pokemon in a video game 2020: Dow has largest point loss in history--1,190.95 points Born: Constantine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hugo Black, William Demarest ["My Three Sons"], Marian Anderson, Gene Sarazen, John Steinbeck, Joan Bennett, John Connally [Texas Governor], Joanne Woodward, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Berry, Ralph Nader, Tony G

1554: Lady Jane Grey executed 1733: Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe at Savannah 1865: Henry Garnet is the first African American to preach to the US House of Representatives 1879: First artificial ice rink in North America--Madison Square Garden 1909: NAACP forms 1924: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiers 1938: First "Kindertransport" carrying Jewish refugee children arrives in Britain. For inspiration read the story of Winton Smith. 1964: Peggy Fleming wins US Figure Skating Cahmpionship 1994: "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is stolen 1999: Senate acquits Bill Clinton Born: Cotton Mather, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Louis Renault, Omar Bradley, Ted Mack, Lorne Green, Joe Garagiola, Bill Russell, Joe Don Baker, Judy Blume, Arsenio Hall, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Josh Brolin, Christopher McCandless {"Into the Wild"], Robert Griffin III Died: Ethan Allen, Immanuel Kant, Grant Wood ["American Gothic"], James Cash Penney,

 1763: Treaty of Paris surrenders Canada to Great Britain 1863: First fire extinguisher patent issued 1897: NY Times adopts slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"--they have forgotten 1933: First singing telegram 1940: Tom & Jerry cartoon premiers 1942: First gold record--Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Cho Cho" 1968: Peggy Fleming wins Gold at Grenoble 2005: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged Born: Boris Pasternak, Alan Hale, Jimmy Durante, Bill Tilden, Leontyne Price, Robert Wagner, Roberta Flack, Mark Spitz, Greg Norman, Jim Cramer, George Stephanopoulos, Laura Dern,  Died: David Brewster [kaleidoscope], Joseph Lister, Wilhelm Rontgen, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Alex Haley, Ron Ziegler, Arthur Miller, Roy Scheider, Shirley Temple Thought: We often sing a song in church called "Ancient Words." Take a look at the lyrics this morning: Holy words long preserved for our walk in this world, They resound with God' own heart, Oh, let

1555: Bishop John Hooper and Dr. Rowland Taylor burned at the stake as Protestant heretics 1825: John Quincy Adams elected President by the House of representatives after no candidate got a majority of the electoral votes 1861: Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States 1870: National Weather Service established 1895: Volleyball invented 1900: Davis Cup established  1909: U.S. outlaws opium 1942: Daylight Savings Time goes into effect 1943: Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrested and charged with conspiracy to overthrow Stalin's government. Sent to a Gulag where he will find faith in Jesus. 1958: Dave Wilkerson sells his TV and decides to pray 2 hours each night--results--he ministers among the gangs of NYC 1964: Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show 1969: First Boeing 747 flight 1974: Dorothy Hamill wins US Figure Skating Championship 1995: "Riverdance" premiers in Dublin Born: William Henry Harrison [President for 1 month], Wilhelm Maybach [designed the first Merc

 1693: William & Mary College chartered 1861: Confederate States of America form 1883: Louis Waterman begins experiments to create the fountain pen 1910: Boy Scouts of America incorporated 1918: "Stars & Stripes" magazine first published 1930: #1 song--"Happy Days are Here Again" 1930: First NFL Draft--Jay Berwanger is first pick 1965: First combat troops sent to Viet Nam 1969: Last issue of "Saturday Evening Post" 1984: Sarajevo Olympics open--look at the city now 2002: Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City Born: William Tecumseh Sherman, Jules Verne, Dmitri Mendeleev [periodic table], Thomas Selfridge [first to die in a plane crash], Lana Turner, Audrey Meadows, Jack Lemon, James Dean, John Williams [composer], Ted Koppel, Nick Nolte, John Grisham, Gary Coleman, Bethany Hamilton [Soul Surfer] Died: Mary Queen of Scots, Peter the Great, Connie Mack, William Fulbright, Anna Nicole Smith, Robert Conrad Thought: Have you ever wondered how other people

1839: Henry Clay says, "I'd rather be right than President"  1856: Tasmanian Parliament passes first law providing for elections by secret ballot 1974: "Blazing Saddles" premiers 2018: A DNA study in "Nature Magazine" says that all citrus fruit can be traced to the foothills of the Himalayas Born: Thomas More, John Deere, Charles Dickens, Garth Brooks, Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher Died: Harvey Firestone, Anne Lindbergh, Billy Casper, Albert Finney, Frank Robinson Thought: Yesterday I was reading Jeremiah 1:9-10 and thinking about what needed to be plucked from my life and what seeds needed planting and building needed to be done to become useful as a spokesman for the Lord. Today, I am looking at 1:16 where the Lord tells Jeremiah about the sins of Judah that have caused Him to creat a boiling pot in the north. In verses 11-15, God gives Jeremiah a vision of what is to come. Anathoth, Jeremiah's home town, was the center for growing almond trees. Alm

1564: John Calvin preaches his last sermon 1812: Ordination of first foreign missionaries from the U.S.--Adoniram Judson, Gordon Hall, Luther Rice, Samuel Newell, and Samuel Nott 1820: 86 Americans start the settlement of Liberia 1869: "Harper's" publishes the first picture of Uncle Sam with whiskers 1894: Bottle opener invented 1911: First "old age" home opens in Prescott Arizona 1935: "Monopoly" goes on sale 1952: Queen Elizabeth II takes the throne 1971: Alan Shepherd hits a golf ball on the moon 2014: Jay Leno begins his run on the Tonight Show Born: Aaron Burr, JEB Stuart, Babe Ruth, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, Mary Leakey [discovered earliest human footprints], Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mike Farrell, Tom Brokaw, Fabian, Bob Marley, Natalie Cole, Axl Rose Died: Joseph Priestly [discovered oxygen and carbonated water], Barbara Tuchman, Danny Thomas, Arthur Ashe, Carl Wilson [Beach Boys], Lew Burdette, Jack Hyles [pastor, First Baptist Hammond Ind.] Thought: Yes

 1597: 26 Japanese Christians are executed by the government as a threat to society--known as the 26 martyrs 1631: Roger Williams arrives in Massachusetts 1736: John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah 1901: U.S. Steel founded 1918: First U.S. pilot to shoot down an enemy plane--Stephen Thompson 1919: United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and DW Griffith 1921: Yankees purchase land in the Bronx for a stadium 1948: Dick Button is 1st American Olympic figute skating champion and first to complete a double axel in competition 1981: Largest jello--9,246 gallons of watermelon Jello 1997: OJ Simpson found liable in civil trial of the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson 2020: Senate acquits Donald Trump Born: Dwight L Moody, John Dunlop [pneumatic rubber tire], Belle Starr, Adlai Stevenson, Red Buttons, Claude King ["Wolverton Mountain"], Hank Aaron, Roger Staubach, Nolan Bushnell [founded Atari and created Pong], Darrell Waltrip, Laura L

 1834: Wake Forest University founded 1863: Samuel Clemens first uses "Mark Twain" 1882: PT Barnum purchases Jumbo the elephant 1887: Congress adopts the electoral Count Act to avoid disputed elections--failed 1913: 16th Amendment ratified authorizing income tax 1943: SS Dorchester torpedoed near Greenland killing 600 troops. Among the dead, four chaplains who gave up their life vests to soldiers [Clark Poling [Dutch Reformed], George Lansing Fox [Methodist], Father John Washington [Catholic], Alexander David Goode [Jewish Rabbi] 1959: the day the music died--Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper die in a plane crash 1967: Jimmie Hendrix records "Purple Haze" 2020: 3700 on a Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan due to Covid Born: Ferdinand Magellan, Felix Mendelssohn, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Maxwell [first woman to receive a medical degree in U.S.], Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, Pretty Boy Floyd, James A Michener, Joey Bishop, Henry Heimlic

  1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on a desert island for 5 years--inspires "Robinson Crusoe" 1738: George Whitefield departs for Georgia as a missionary 1876: Baseball's National League formed 1887: First observance of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney 1913: Grand Central Terminal opens in NYC 1922: James Joyce publishes "Ulysses" 1925: Dog sleds reach Nome with diphtheria medicine--start of the Iditarod 1949: Ben Hogan seriously injured in a car wreck 1959: Vince Lombardi hired as Packers coach 1975: Dorothy Hamill wins U.S. Figure Skating Championship 2020: Palindrome Day--02022020. Last ime November 11, 1111--11111111 Born: Solomon Guggenheim, James Joyce, George Halas, Howard Johnson, Ayn Rand, Red Shoendienst, James Dickey, Stan Getz, Tom Smothers, Farah Fawcett, Christie Brinkley Died: Annie Wittenmeyer [1st President of Women's Christian Temperance Union], Dmitri Mendeleev [periodic table], John L. Sullivan, Boris Karloff, Bertrand