Happy Valentine’s Day! On this date in 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation, IBM for short. This date marks the day when we make love, not war, but some people didn’t get the memo.
On February 14, 1929 seven people, six of them rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois in what is now known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This date also marks the beginning of The Asbestos Strike of 1949. Based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, the labor dispute by asbestos minors lasted four months and led to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It also aided in establishing the careers of Jean Marchand, Gérard Pelletier, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
This is also the date, again in 1949, when an author by the name of Carlos J. Cortes made his way into the world. Happy Birthday, Carlos.
If you want to finish the manuscript in 2012, you still have 321 days left.
On February 14, 1929 seven people, six of them rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois in what is now known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This date also marks the beginning of The Asbestos Strike of 1949. Based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, the labor dispute by asbestos minors lasted four months and led to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It also aided in establishing the careers of Jean Marchand, Gérard Pelletier, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.