1912: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.” —Final entry in Capt. Robert Scott’s diary, in a blizzard during a doomed mission to the South Pole
1943: Eric Idle is born; he goes on to do many different things, including writing “The FCC Song”
1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage and sentenced to death