Today in History (August 27th):
1770: Birthdays: German philosopher Georg Hegel;
1859: The first successful oil well in the United States was drilled near Titusville, Pa.
1871: Birthdays: Novelist Theodore Dreiser;
1877: Birthdays: English automaker Charles Rolls;
1883: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred on Krakatoa, a small, uninhabited island west of Sumatra in Indonesia.
1899: Birthdays: British novelist C.S. Forester;
1908: Birthdays: Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States;
1916: Birthdays: Singer/actor Martha Raye;
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes, was signed by 15 nations in Paris. World War II began 11 years later.
1929: Birthdays: Writers Ira Levin;
1937: Birthdays: Singer/actor Tommy Sands;
1939: Adolf Hitler served notice on England and France that Germany wanted Danzig and the Polish Corridor. Birthdays: Writer William Least-Heat Moon;
1943: Birthdays: Actor Tuesday Weld;
1947: Birthdays: Actor Barbara Bach;
1952: Birthdays: Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman);
1957: Birthdays: Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer;
1976: Birthdays: Actor Sarah Chalke.
1977: IRA militants killed Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen, by blowing up his boat. It was the IRA’s first attack on the royal family.
1991: The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared independence and the European Community recognized Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent countries.
1992: Serbian leaders at the Yugoslav peace conference pledged to close prisoner-of-war camps, end ethnic cleansing and work toward peace.
1999: Two Russian cosmonauts and a French astronaut left Mir to return to Earth, leaving the orbiting Russian space station unmanned for the first time in 13 years.
2004: Russian authorities said traces of explosives were found in the wreckage of two airliners that crashed within minutes of each other after takeoff earlier in the week in Moscow. A total of 89 people died in the crashes.
2007: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, effective Sept. 17. He had been embroiled in several controversies, including the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, treatment of detainees, surveillance and other issues.
2008: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was formally elected the Democratic presidential nominee at the party’s national convention in Denver. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware was the party’s vice presidential nominee.
2009: 17-year-old British youth Mike Perham, after a 9-month voyage in a 50-foot yacht, was recognized as the youngest person to sail alone around the world without assistance. At age 14, he had been the youngest to sail solo across the Atlantic.
2010: The planned $3 billion merger of Continental and United Airlines was approved by the U.S. Justice Department, clearing the major regulatory hurdle to the creation of the world’s biggest airline. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it proposed levying its highest fine ever — $24.2 million — on American Airlines for failing to correctly inspect 286 planes.
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Quotes
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?” – Thomas Hood, 1799-1845
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.” – Mao Zedong, 1893-1976
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret WolfeHungerford, Novelist (Molly Bawn)
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.” – John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
“The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.” – Michael Friedman
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) US President (36), Vice President (37):
“A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.”
“A man without a vote is man without protection.”
“A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman… They are both… lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”
“All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
“Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.”
“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
Vocabulary