2/15/2026

Sunday, February 15, 2026

1936 Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle 

1968 John Lennon and George Harrison, plus their wives Cynthia and Pattie, and Pattie’s sister Jenny, traveled to India to study Transcendental Meditation for two months with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his ashram; Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined them a few days later, Ringo only stays for 2 weeks

1975 Linda Ronstadt topped the US singles chart with 'You're No Good', and the US album chart with Heart Like A Wheel

1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ended as the last Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Afghan border

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer was found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys

2025  French President Emmanuel Macron announces an emergency summit in Paris, France, between European leaders following a controversial speech given by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference in which he criticized European leadership as the worst threat to Europe, particularly for imposing too much censorship and too little control over migration. 

In bed at 9:10, awake at 4:10, up at 4:50.  34/27/50/32.

Morning meds at 9 a.m.  

The last paragraph of James Joyce's "The Dead"

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.