A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 13th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 13, 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to stand trial before the Catholic Inquisition for heresy. On February 13, 1919, American football legend Eddie Robinson was born in Jackson, Louisiana. On February 13, 1920, the Negro National League of professional baseball was founded, not the first all African American baseball league, but the first to last more than one season…
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A Brief History On February 13, 1919, American football legend Eddie Robinson was born in Jackson, Louisiana. Digging Deeper Eddie was born into a working family and earned his BA in English from Leland College at Baker, Louisiana while playing quarterback on their football team. He later earned his MA at the University of Iowa in 1954. In the meantime, Eddie compiled an incredible record as the football coach at Grambling State University in Louisiana, from 1941 to 1997, amassing a record of 408 wins, 165 losses, and 15 ties. Robinson retired in 1997 and died at the age of…
A Brief History On February 13, 2022, ironically during Black History Month, the National Football League is making a mockery of American society by featuring ill-advised radical and divisive racial aspects to the sport they like to think of as our “National Pastime.” We call upon all decent Americans to send a strong message to the NFL by boycotting this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. Digging Deeper A lot of the substance for our displeasure with the NFL stems from the “entertainment” scheduled for half-time and some of the ads to be aired during the game, one of which is…
A Brief History On February 13, 1981, an incredible 13 miles of sewers and streets in Louisville, Kentucky blew up, the explosion caused by the detonation of hexane gas vapors. Even more incredibly, no people were killed, although 4 were injured. The Louisville Sewer Explosion is exactly why we cannot trust industry to “do the right thing.” Digging Deeper Hexane gas is not your normal sewer gas that you might have heard referred to in the past, but the product of industrial waste illegally dumped by giant feed and animal food company Ralston-Purina. The Ralston-Purina plant located in Louisville processes…
A Brief History On February 13, 1920, the Negro National League of professional baseball was founded, not the first all African American baseball league, but the first to last more than one season and the foundation for African American professional baseball in the United States. In honor of Black History Month, February of every year in the US, we ran an article appropriately titled February 9, 1971: In Honor of Black History Month…. Just 4 days ago in which we discussed some of professional baseball’s Black pioneers. Until the Brooklyn Dodgers hired Jackie Robinson to play second base in 1947,…
