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Today ( February  08 )
Birth Days

1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.

1828 - Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.

1906 - Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)

1920 - Lana Turner, actress.

1925 - Jack Lemmon, actor.

1931 - James Dean, singer.

1940 - Ted Koppel, news anchor.

1949 - Brook Adams

1968 - Gary Coleman, actor. (whatyoutalkinabout?)

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Events

1693 - Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.

1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.

1908 - Boy Scouts of America founded.

1915 - "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.

1922 - Radio arrives in the White House.

1957 - Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.

1977 - Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.

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  A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
- Ingrid Bergman

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth

Great causes and little men go ill together.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

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