Today in History (September 9th):
1585: Birthdays: The Cardinal-duc de Richelieu, French statesman and Roman Catholic cardinal;
1754: Birthdays: British Capt. William Bligh, of the HMS Bounty;
1776: The second Continental Congress officially changed the new American nation’s name from United Colonies to United States.
1828: Birthdays: Russian author Leo Tolstoy;
1850: California became the 31st state.
1876: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Frank Chance;
1887: Birthdays: Alf Landon, the Kansas Republican who lost the 1936 presidential election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt;
1890: Birthdays: Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harland Sanders;
1894: Birthdays: Movie composer Arthur Freed;
1918: Birthdays: Oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Snyder;
1920: Birthdays: Philanthropist Robert Wood Johnson III;
1923: Birthdays: Actor Cliff Robertson;
1941: Birthdays: Rhythm and blues singer Otis Redding;
1949: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Joe Theismann;
1951: Birthdays: Actor Tom Wopat;
1952: Birthdays: Actor Angela Cartwright;
1956: Rock ‘n’ roll singer Elvis Presley appeared on national television for the first time, on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1960: Birthdays: Actor Hugh Grant;
1966: Birthdays: Actor Adam Sandler;
1969: Birthdays: Actor Rachel Hunter;
1971: More than 1,000 convicts took over the state prison at Attica, N.Y. and held 35 convicts hostage. Four days later, 28 convicts and nine hostages were killed as state police reclaimed the prison. Birthdays: Actor Henry Thomas (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial);
1972: Birthdays: Actor Goran Visnjic;
1975: Birthdays: Singer Michael Buble;
1976: Deaths: Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong died at age 82.
1977: Birthdays: Rapper Soulja Slim;
1990: U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in a quickly arranged summit in Helsinki, Finland, to present a united front against Iraq. Liberian President Samuel Doe was killed by rebels after visiting the headquarters of West African peacekeeping forces in Monrovia.
1993: In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the PLO recognized the right of the state of Israel to exist in peace and security. In turn, Rabin declared the PLO the representative of the Palestinian people.
1994: The United States and Cuba reached an agreement aimed at discouraging Cubans from trying to flee to the United States by rafts or other vessels.
1995: Steffi Graf of Germany defeated Monica Seles and won her fourth U.S. Open women’s singles title in her first appearance since a fan stabbed her in 1993.
1998: Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent the U.S. House of Representatives his report on his investigation into U.S. President Bill Clinton. He said it contained substantial and credible information … that may constitute grounds for impeachment.
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1999: More than 90 people died in the bombing of a Moscow apartment building. The blast was blamed on militants from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
2001: Venus Williams defeated her sister Serena for the U.S. Open tennis championship, 6-2, 6-4, the first time since 1884 that sisters had met in a Grand Slam finale.
2003: The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston and lawyers for about 550 victims of sexual abuse by priests reached an agreement that could run as high as $85 million.
2004: U.S. President George W. Bush urged the United Nations and the international community to put a stop to the violence in Sudan where reported genocide in the Darfur region led to the deaths of an estimated 50,000 people over the past 18 months.
2005: Michael Brown, the embattled director of FEMA, roundly criticized for its slow response to Hurricane Katrina, was replaced as hurricane relief coordinator by U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen.
2008: U.S. President George W. Bush said some 8,000 U.S. troops would be returning home from Iraq without replacement during the next several months. Bush also announced additional troops will be deployed in Afghanistan. Prime Minister of Thailand Samak Sundaravej was ousted for moonlighting as a paid performer on a TV cooking show.
2009: More than 30 people were killed when fast-moving floods caused by heavy rain in Turkey swept through Istanbul.
2010: A federal judge in California that the don’t ask, don’t tell policy that prevented homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. armed services was unconstitutional. U.S. Marines raided the Magellan Star, a hijacked German-owned vessel, in the Gulf of Aden and retook the ship from Somali pirates.
2011: Thousands of protesters attacked the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, touching off a violent confrontation with police and prompting Israel to evacuate its diplomats from Egypt. Rescue workers searched for 10 men who disappeared from a Mexican oil rig damaged by Tropical Storm Nate in the Gulf of Mexico.
Quotes
“Our perception that we have “no time” is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.” – Margaret Visser, writer and broadcaster (b. 1940)
“A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.” – Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chairman
James Agate (1877-1947) English writer:
“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”
“I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.”
“The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn’t sex but something else.”
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
“The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.”
“Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.”
“I don’t know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don’t want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.”
munificent
PRONUNCIATION: (myoo-NIF-uh-suhnt)
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MEANING: adjective: Extremely generous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin munus (gift) + facere (to make). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mei- (to change, go, or move [of goods]) that also brought us migrate, mutate, molt, miss, mutual, municipal, and remunerate. Earliest documented use: 1565.
USAGE: “The Southern Pacific was a rapacious villain whose coffers overflowed only because of the government’s munificent grant of land.” – Don Hofsommer; The Southern Pacific; Texas A&M University Press; 2009.
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