Today in History (April 27th):
1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives of the Philippine islands during his attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the world. His co-leader, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, completed the voyage in 1522.
1737: Birthdays: English historian Edward Gibbon.
1749: George Frideric Handel’s Fireworks Music was first performed.
1759: Birthdays: Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.
1791: Birthdays: Samuel F.B. Morse, American artist and inventor of magnetic telegraphy.
1810: Ludwig van Beethoven composed Fur Elise.
1822: Birthdays: Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th president of the United States.
1865: The steamship Sultana, heavily overloaded with an estimated 2,300 passengers, most of them Union soldiers en route home, exploded on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis. The death toll in the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history was set at 1,450.
1896: Birthdays: Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon; Baseball Hall of Fame member Rogers Hornsby.
1897: Grant’s Tomb was dedicated. The cornerstone was laid for Grant’s Tomb in New York City’s Riverside Park. A holiday was declared for the occasion and an enormous crowd turned out in honor of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president and Civil War general who died 12 years earlier.
1899: Birthdays: Cartoonist Walter Lantz.
1904: Birthdays: English poet C. Day-Lewis.
1916: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Enos Slaughter.
1922: Birthdays: Actor Jack Klugman.
1927: Birthdays: Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1932: Birthdays: Radio/TV host Casey Kasem.
1937: The first Social Security payment was made in the United States. Birthdays: Actor Sandy Dennis.
1938: Birthdays: Champion bowler Earl Anthony.
1945: Birthdays: Playwright August Wilson.
1951: Birthdays: Rock musician Ace Frehley.
1952: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member George Gervin.
1959: Birthdays: Pop singer Sheena Easton.
1968: Birthdays: Political journalist Dana Milbank.
1984: An 11-day siege that began with the shooting of a policewoman, ended at Libya’s London Embassy. Britain broke diplomatic relations with Libya over the incident.
1991: An estimated 70 tornadoes hit Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, killing 23 people and leaving thousands homeless.
1993: Kuwait said it foiled an Iraqi plot to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush during his visit earlier in the month. The final vote tallies showed Russia’s Boris Yeltsin won a solid victory in a referendum on his presidency and economic reforms.
1994: Virginia executed a condemned killer in the first case in which DNA testing was used to obtain a conviction.
2004: U.S. military units moved into positions once held by Spanish troops outside Iraq’s holy city of Najaf. The fighting that followed killed about 40 insurgents.
2005: The U.S. State Department said the number of major international terrorist incidents more than tripled to 655 the previous year.
2006: A senior Israeli intelligence official said Iran has purchased missiles from North Korea with a 1,200-mile range, capable of reaching Europe.
2007: Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 172 terrorist suspects in a series of raids after uncovering a plot for suicide air attacks on oil and military installations.
2008: Police said a 73-year-old Austrian man had been accused of fathering several children with his daughter while holding her captive in a cellar for 24 years.
2009: General Motors announced it would cut 23,000 jobs by 2011, drop the Pontiac line and cut its dealer network by 40 percent. Same-sex couples were granted the right to seek marriage licenses in Iowa. By the end of the first day, more than 200 couples had applied to be legally married.
2010: Banking giant Goldman Sachs, going into a U.S. Senate inquiry, was accused of helping set up the mortgage meltdown that led to a global financial crisis by boosting the market for profitable toxic mortgage-related securities. The Mexican government issued a travel alert for Arizona, saying Mexican nationals could face harassment as a result of the state’s new immigration law.
2011: A record outbreak of 358 tornadoes carved a devastating path through parts of 21 states from Texas to New York and on into Canada over a four-day period, hitting southern states hard, particularly Alabama where a reported 249 people were killed. In an effort to put a lid on political charges that he was born outside the United States and therefore in office illegally, U.S. President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate officially listing Hawaii as his birthplace.
2012: U.S. President Barack Obama said the nation had made extraordinary progress in recovering from an economic crisis, which he called the worst since the 1930s.
Quotes
“Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.” – Laurence J. Peter
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” – Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
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“Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!” – Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) 18th U.S. President, Civil War general:
“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.”
“I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.”
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
“I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.”
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”
“It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.”
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”
pantywaist
PRONUNCIATION: (PAN-tee-wayst)
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MEANING:
noun: An weak or effeminate man.
adjective: Weak; cowardly; effeminate.
ETYMOLOGY: A pantywaist was formerly a child’s undergarment in which a shirt and pants were buttoned together at the waist. Earliest documented use: 1910.
USAGE: “The question on many people’s minds: Will the genteel Mr. Creel, more comfortable buried in legal briefs than in the trenches of hand-to-throat political combat, be able to respond in kind? He doesn’t see himself as a political pantywaist.” Peter Fritsch and Jose de Cordoba; Would You Fall into Line for This Man?; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Jan 11, 2001.
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callithump
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-uh-thump)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. A noisy, boisterous celebration or parade.
2. A mock serenade with pots, pans, kettles, etc., given for a newly married couple. Also known as charivari or shivaree.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from callithumpian, alteration of English dialect word gallithumpian (disturber of order at Parliamentary elections in 18th century).
USAGE: “‘Our clothes,’ Bono said, ‘got somewhat fusty in the rebels’ little New Year’s callithump.” – M.T. Anderson; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing; Candlewick Press; 2008.
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patrocliny / patricliny
PRONUNCIATION: (PA-truh-kli-nee)
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MEANING: (noun), Inheritance of traits primarily from the father.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek patro- (father) + klinein (to lean). Ultimately from the Indo-European root klei- (to lean) that is also the source of lean, incline, ladder, lid, client, climate, and climax.
NOTES: The female counterpart of this term is matrocliny.
USAGE: “Common to all was the early modern ideal of nobility that prized purity above antiquity; quarterings [joining different coats of arms to symbolize various ancestries] together above patrocliny, and virtue above ethnicity.” – William D. Godsey; Nobles and Nation in Central Europe; Cambridge University Press; 2004.