Wednesday, February 11, 2015
![Pennsylvania Hospital](pix/penn_hosp.jpg)
[1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, (first in America), opens
(founded by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin)]
![Writer Lydia Child](pix/child-lydia2.jpg)
[1802 - Lydia Maria Francis Child, writer, publisher, born in Medford, Massachusetts]
![Thomas Alva Edison](pix/edison-thomas-a3.jpg)
[1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, born in Milan, Ohio]
![Producer, Director Philip Dunne](pix/dunne-philip.jpg)
[1908 - Philip Dunne, producer, director, playwright, born in New York City]
![Boxing Champ Max Baer](pix/baer-max-sr2.jpg)
[1909 - Max (Maximillian Adalbert) Baer, champion boxer, born in Omaha, Nebraska]
![Director Joseph Mankiewicz](pix/mankiewicz-joseph3.jpg)
[1909 - Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, Academy Award-winning playwright, director, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]
![Folk Singer Josh White](pix/white-jos.jpg)
[1915 - Josh White, blues & folk singer, guitarist, born in Greenville, South Carolina]
![Writer Sidney Sheldon](pix/sheldon-sidney3.jpg)
[1917 - Sidney Sheldon (Schechtel), film and television screenplay writer, novelist, born in Chicago]
![Actress Eva Gabor](pix/gabor-eva.jpg)
[1919 - Eva Gabor, actress, born in Budapest, Hungary]
![Actress Kim Stanley](pix/stanley-kim2.jpg)
[1925 - Kim Stanley (Patricia Beth Reid), Emmy Award-winning actress, born in Tularosa, New Mexico]
![Actor Leslie Nielsen](pix/nielsen-leslie4.jpg)
[1926 - Leslie William Nielsen, actor, born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada]
[1971 - U.S. and USSR sign treaty prohibiting deployment of nuclear weapons on ocean floor]
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in the post Civil War reconstruction era as a southern anti-black and anti-federal terrorist group. While the Klan was initially suppressed by the federal government, it was resurrected in 1915 in Georgia. This new Klan appealed to hatred of Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, in addition to its original targeting of blacks. Today it might qualify as an equal opportunity hate group. The KKK was politically correct in those days; so much so that when the father of the modern cinema filmed Birth of a Nation, he glorified this group of vigilante cowards as protectors of white womanhood.