Today in History (September 10th):
1713: Birthdays: English scientist and clergyman John Needham;
1813: U.S. naval units under the command of Capt. Oliver Perry defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie.
1823: Simon Bolivar, who led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, was named president of Peru with dictatorial powers.
1846: Elias Howe received a patent for the sewing machine.
1892: Birthdays: Physicist Arthur Holly Compton;
1896: Birthdays: Dancer Adele Astaire;
1903: Birthdays: English critic Cyril Connolly;
1914: Birthdays: Film director Robert Wise;
1929: Birthdays: Legendary golfer Arnold Palmer;
1934: Birthdays: Television journalist Charles Kuralt; Home run-hitting baseball star Roger Maris;
1941: Birthdays: Science writer Stephen Jay Gould;
1945: Birthdays: Singer Jose Feliciano;
1948: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Bob Lanier;
1949: Birthdays: Political commentator Bill O’Reilly;
1950: Birthdays: Musician Joe Perry;
1953: Birthdays: Actor Amy Irving;
1954: Birthdays: Actor Clark Johnson;
1958: Birthdays: Film director Chris Columbus;
1960: Birthdays: Actor Colin Firth;
1963: Blacks entered the white public schools of Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., after U.S. President John Kennedy federalized the state’s National Guard.
1968: Birthdays: Film director Guy Ritchie;
1974: Birthdays: Actor Ryan Phillippe;
1996: The United Nations approved the new nuclear test ban treaty on a vote of 158-3.
1998: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams had face-to-face talks with David Trimble, leader of Northern Ireland’s Protestant Unionists, for the first time.
2000: The U.S. government agreed to drop virtually all charges against Chinese-American scientist Wen Ho Lee, accused of stealing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
2002: Switzerland and Timor-Leste joined the United Nations, expanding the membership roll to 191.
2004: Top U.S. forensic document specialists said papers described by CBS News as proving U.S. President George W. Bush shirked military duty may have been faked.
2007: A rebel leader claims the Sudanese government has bombed Darfur, killing at least 28 people. An estimated 200,000 people are believed to have died in the rebel-ravaged region of Darfur in the past four years.
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2008: Scientists in a Geneva lab activated the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful subatomic particle accelerator, built over a 14-year period and costing an estimated $8 billion. However, it had to be shut down after nine days for repairs.
2009: U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted You lie! during U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on healthcare reform to a joint session of Congress. Wilson’s outburst brought sharp criticism from colleagues and he apologized to Obama for inappropriate and regrettable action when he let my emotions get the best of me.
2010: A gas pipeline explosion and fire leveled 37 houses in San Bruno, Calif. Eight people were killed and more than 50 others injured.
2011: Zanzibar officials said at least 187 people died after an overloaded ferry capsized and sank off the coast of Tanzania. More than 600 were rescued.
Quotes
“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.” – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (1911-2004)
“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” – Pythagoras, circa 570 BC-495 BC
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.” – Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904
“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.” – Josh Billings, 1818-1885
“Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.” – Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) Italian-French designer:
“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”
“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
“Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.”
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”
“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”
fastidious
PRONUNCIATION: (fa-STID-ee-uhs)
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MEANING: adjective:
1. Hard to please; exacting.
2. Meticulous.
3. Excessively concerned about cleanliness, propriety, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fastidium (disgust). Earliest documented use: 1531.
USAGE: “His reported conduct suggests a fastidious man of refined manners… In his extravagant generosity and the lavishness of his hospitality, it seems almost as if he sought to outclass the most munificent of Arabs.” – Julia Ashtiany, et al; Abbasid Belles Lettres; Cambridge University Press;1990.
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