ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
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Today is the 50th day of 2025 and the 61st day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1807, former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested for treason.
In 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph.
In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing the internment of Japanese Americans.
In 1945, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
In 1963, Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" was published, sparking a new wave of feminism in the United States.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), astronomer; Lee Marvin (1924-1987), actor; John Frankenheimer (1930-2002), director; Smokey Robinson (1940- ), singer-songwriter; Amy Tan (1952- ), author; Jeff Daniels (1955- ), actor; Ray Winstone (1957- ), actor; Roger Goodell (1959- ), NFL commissioner; Seal (1963- ), singer-songwriter; Jonathan Lethem (1964- ), author; Benicio Del Toro (1967- ), actor; Jeff Kinney (1971- ), cartoonist/children's author; Nikola Jokic (1995- ), basketball player; Millie Bobby Brown (2004- ), actress.
TODAY'S FACT: The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an average surface temperature of 867 degrees Fahrenheit.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1995, Sterling Marlin became the third person in the race's history to win back-to-back Daytona 500s.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is." -- Amy Tan
TODAY'S NUMBER: 33,000 -- number of Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. military in World War II.
TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 12) and last quarter moon (Feb. 20).