This Day in History – February 7th
1926 – Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month. Later the Bush administration would complain, “Why did he have to pick such a long month.”
1971 – Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage. Within minutes the Swiss Bikini Team was formed.
1904 – A fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings. The damage was never restored, but rather advertised as “slightly used ghettos.”
1943 – The government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year which was two more than anyone ever bought in 1943.
John Haynes Holmes said, “Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.” He later stated Americans are no more necessary to the United States than choir boys are to destroying young person’s lives.”
32 years ago today, Ashton Kutcher was born, thus beginning a banal evolution of extreme douche bags which, in the future, will be referred to as “Kouche Bags.”
1984 – Space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk, which lasted nearly six hours… mostly because the two forgot to tether themselves.
1964 – The Beatles, the famous British quartet, land on U.S. soil for the first time, thus creating “Beatlemania.” The insignificance of Ringo Starr could barely be heard over the roar of thousands of teenage girls.