Forum SideNotes for February 9, 2010
Posted on Feb 08, 2010 in Opinion
Quote of the week
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Mark Twain
This week in history
February 9, 1965
U.S. sends first combat troops to South Vietnam
A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there.
February 9, 1971
Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame
On this day in 1971, pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In August of that year, Paige, a pitching legend known for his fastball, showmanship and the longevity of his playing career, which spanned five decades, was inducted. Joe DiMaggio once called Paige “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.
February 11, 1990
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years.
February 12, 1999
President Clinton acquitted
On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment: perjury and obstruction of justice.
February 14, 278
St. Valentine beheaded
Around the year 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed.
Claudius banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.
February 14, 1929
Valentines Day Massacre
In Chicago, gunmen in the suspected employment of organized-crime boss Al Capone murder seven members of the George “Bugs” Moran North Siders gang in a garage on North Clark Street. The so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre stirred a media storm centered on Capone and his illegal Prohibition-era activities
From the Kaleidoscope archives
15 years ago this week
The Kaleidoscope proclaims that even with the increase of sexually-transmitted diseases including AIDS, most students who avoid one-night stands do so to avoid running into that person in an awkward situation on campus.
10 years ago this week
Members of the USGA protested the failure of the higher education consortium to create an African- American studies major at UAB.
5 Years ago this week
Former comedian and political satirist and current Senator from Minnesota, Al Frankin spoke at the Alys Stephens Center.
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