February 3

15th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, granting voting rights regardless of race (1870); American novelist Gertrude Stein born (1874); Luna 9 becomes first spacecraft to make soft landing on the moon (1966); Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot a space shuttle (1995).

February 2

City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded (1536); Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War (1848); First Groundhog Day celebrated (1887); First Groundhog Day celebrated (1887); First Groundhog Day celebrated (1887); NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens (1913); James Joyce's "Ulysses" published (1922); Actor Paul Mescal born (1996)

February 1

 "Oxford English Dictionary" debuts (1884); Poet Langston Hughesborn (1901); Film legend Clark Gable born (1901); Harriet Tubman becomes first Black woman on US postage stamp (1978); Harry Styles born (1994); Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry, all seven astronauts killed (2003).

January 31

Guy Fawkes is executed (1606); 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, passes in Congress (1865); Jackie Robinson born (1919); Actress Kerry Washington born (1977); Justin Timberlake born (1981).

January 30

American flag maker Betsy Ross dies (1836); Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882); Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (1948); The Beatles give their last public performance (1969); 14 killed on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland (1972).

January 29

President William McKinley born (1843); Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" first published (1845); Baseball Hall of Fame announces first inductees (1936); Oprah Winfrey born (1954); Robert Frost dies (1963).

Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron is an American author best known for her book “The Artist Way”. She struggled with alcoholism and drug abuse for years before becoming sober and dedicating her life to helping people unblock their creativity.Weird side note in her story, she was married to famous film maker Martin Scoreses for a year before divorcing.