On this Day…

• In 1925, clean-cut comedy actor Jack Lemmon was born unexpectedly in an elevator at the Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts. He arrived jaundiced, and a nurse exclaimed, “My, look at the little yellow Lemmon!”

— from Today’s the Day! By Jeremy Beadle

• In 1915, “The Birth of Nation” was released. Cinema’s first major epic, it was the most expensive movie that had ever been made and probably the most controversial. Based on Thomas Dixon’s Civil War novel “The Clansman,” it was directed by David Wark Griffith, the son of a Confederate soldier called “Roaring Jake.” Much of the film’s authenticity is said to come from Griffith’s recollections of his father’s war-time yarns, and over twelve reeks a tale of the epoch-making struggle is spun out in terms that were seen by many as distinctly racist: it ends with the Ku Klux Klan riding off to save Southern maiden from the clutches of a black man. Griffith’s next film was called “Intolerance.”

In Christian history

• In 1693, the College of William and Mary was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia, for the purpose of educating Anglican clergyman. It is the secondoldest institution of higher learning in America, after Harvard.

— from This Day in Christian History

By William D. Blake

In the Philippines

• In 1935, the Philippine Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention.

In Cebu

• In 1890, Cebuano poet Amando N. Osorio (18901946) was born. Osorio served as Dalaguete Mayor and Cebu Deputy Governor. • In 1919, the first issue of “El Espectador” (19191922) came out. This newspaper was published and edited by Manuel C. Briones. — from Cebuano Studies Center University of San Carlos

It is old wisdom that one shall seek to know and accept his own truth and the attitude of the world will matter less to him.

— Another Kind of Love The Freeman Lifestyle February 12, 2014