Happy Birthday February 1

Hollywood actor Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz to William Henry "Will" Gable, an oil-well driller and Adeline (née Hershelman). He was named William after his father, but even in childhood he was almost always called Clark. At seventeen, Gable was inspired to be an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise. He had roles in more than 60 movies in multiple genres, three decades of which was as a leading man, most famously as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. 

Clark Gable

President of Russia Boris Yeltsin was born in Butka, a small village near the Ural Mountains on February 1, 1931. The priest at young his christening was so drunk that he dropped baby Boris into the font then forgot he was there. The first President of Russia from 1990 to 1999, Yeltsin took control after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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