Today in History (September 17th):
1739: Birthdays: Second Chief Justice of the United States, John Rutledge, who signed both the Declaration of Independce and U.S. Constitution;
1787: The U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
1862: Union forces led by Gen. George McClellan attacked Confederate troops led by Gen. Robert E. Lee near Antietam Creek in Maryland. McClellan blocked Lee’s advance on Washington but fell short of victory.
1869: Birthdays: Norwegian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Christian Lous Lange;
1890: Birthdays: Radio news commentator Gabriel Heatter;
1907: Birthdays: Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger;
1923: Birthdays: Country music pioneer Hank Williams Sr.;
1927: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member George Blanda;
1928: Birthdays: Actor Roddy McDowall;
1929: Birthdays: Race car driver Stirling Moss;
1930: Birthdays: Actor David Huddleston;
1931: Birthdays: Anne Bancroft;
1933: Birthdays: Dorothy Loudon;
1934: Birthdays: Tennis Hall of Fame member Maureen Connolly;
1935: Birthdays: Author Ken Kesey;
1937: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Orlando Cepeda;
1939: Soviet troops invaded Poland, 16 days after Nazi Germany moved into the same country. Birthdays: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter;
1945: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Phil Jackson;
1947: Birthdays: Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly;
1948: Birthdays: Actor John Ritter;
1951: Birthdays: Spooky movie hostess Elvira, whose real name is Cassandra Peterson;
1953: Birthdays: Actor/comedian Rita Rudner;
1957: Birthdays: Rock and roll Hall of Fame member Richie Ramone;
1976: NASA unveiled its first space shuttle, the Enterprise, an airplane-like spacecraft costing almost $10 billion that took nearly a decade to develop.
1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords, laying the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities.
1983: Vanessa Williams of New York became the first African-American to be named Miss America. She resigned 11 months later after nude photos were published but regained stardom as a singer and actress.
1991: North Korea, South Korea, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were admitted to the United Nations.
1993: Cambodia’s two leading political parties agreed that Prince Norodom Sihanouk would lead the nation. Sihanouk was installed as king a week later.
2001: U.S. President George W. Bush said Osama bin Laden, the suspected ringleader in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was wanted dead or alive as Bush continued efforts to line up international support for his proposed war on terror.
2002: U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to use force against Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said several nations had pledged military support for offensive action against Iraq.
2004: The death toll from Hurricane Ivan was put at 38 in the United States and 75 in at the Caribbean.
2005: A car bomb in Baghdad killed at least 30 people. In another part of town, the bodies of nine men, who had been tortured and killed, were found.
2008: A car bomb and a rocket hit the U.S. Embassy in Yemen as staff members reported to work, killing 16 people. The U.S. House of Representatives passed an energy legislative package that would allow drilling for oil within 50 miles of American coasts. The 2008 Paralympic Games for athletes with disabilities came to a close in Beijing after about 4,000 competitors vied in 20 sports. Top individual performer was Australian swimmer Matt Cowdrey, an arm amputee from birth who captured five gold and three silver medals.
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2009: The Obama administration announced it was canceling plans for a ground-based antiballistic missile shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Instead, the White House said, a shorter-range system would be considered for Europe. Final unofficial results from Afghanistan’s controversial presidential election indicated that incumbent Hamid Karzai got 54.6 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff.
2010: Six suspects were arrested in what was described as a potential terror plot against Pope Benedict XVI during his London visit.
2011: The widespread U.S. outbreak of listeria food poisoning was traced to contaminated cantaloupes sold by a Colorado company that recalled millions of melons as the federal investigation continued. Officials said about two dozen people had died of listeriosis in 20 states. Egypt’s temporary military government reinstated martial law after the recent attack on the Israeli Embassy.
Quotes
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Buell Sprague, 1795-1876
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
“If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live forever. I no longer do.” – Erica Jong, writer (b. 1942)
“I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it’s fantastic.” – Woody Allen
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) US poet:
“It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.”
“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”
“It was the love of love,
the love that swallows up all else,
a grateful love,
a love of nature, of people,
of animals,
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you.”
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.”
mendacity
PRONUNCIATION: (men-DAS-i-tee)
http://wordsmith.org/words/mendacity.mp3
MEANING: noun:
1. The quality of being untruthful: a tendency to lie.
2. A lie.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mendac-, stem of mendax (lying), from mendum (fault or defect) that also gave us amend, emend, and mendicant. Earliest documented use: 1540.
USAGE: “The story of the founding of the Mormon church in Ohio in 1830 and its unlikely trek from there to Missouri to Illinois to Salt Lake City is one of the great adventures of the nineteenth century. It is an enthralling journey rich with acts of bravery, frailty, strength, violence, and mendacity, the most hideous being the Mountain Meadows Massacre.” –
Laurie Winer; The Mormon Candidate; Los Angeles Review of Books; Aug 26, 2012.
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