Today in History (September 27th):
1540: The Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, was chartered by the Roman Catholic Church.
1722: Birthdays: Patriot Samuel Adams;
1825: In England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train.
1840: Birthdays: Political cartoonist Thomas Nast;
1885: Birthdays: Magician Harry Blackstone Sr.; Composer Joseph McCarthy (You Made Me Love You);
1896: Birthdays: Former U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C.;
1898: Birthdays: Composer Vincent Youmans (Tea for Two);
1905: Albert Eisenstein published a paper introducing his equation E=mc2.
1920: Birthdays: Actor Jayne Meadows; Actor William Conrad;
1922: Birthdays: Filmmaker Arthur Penn;
1927: Birthdays: Actor Sada Thompson;
1930: Golfer Bobby Jones won the U.S. Amateur Championship, capturing the era’s Grand Slam. Earlier in the year, he won the British Amateur, British Open and U.S. Open tournaments.
1933: Birthdays: Actor Greg Morris;
1934: Birthdays: Actor Wilford Brimley;
1935: 13-year-old Judy Garland signed her first contract with MGM.
1939: After 19 days of heavy air raids and artillery bombardment, Polish defenders of Warsaw surrendered to the Germans.
1943: Birthdays: Rock musician Randy Bachman;
1947: Birthdays: Singer Meat Loaf;
1949: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Mike Schmidt;
1954: The Tonight Show made its television debut with host Steve Allen.
1958: Birthdays: Actor/singer Shaun Cassidy;
1964: The Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released after a 10-month investigation, concluding that there was no conspiracy and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone.
1972: Birthdays: Actor Gwyneth Paltrow;
1982: Birthdays: Rapper Lil Wayne;
1984: Birthdays: Singer Avril Lavigne;
1987: Mudslides in slum areas of Medellin, Colombia, killed up to 500 people.
1991: U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the United States would unilaterally eliminate tactical nuclear weapons on land and at sea in Europe and Asia. The Palestine Liberation Organization legislature voted to support U.S.- and Soviet-sponsored Middle East peace efforts.
1994: U.S. forces in Haiti took control of the Parliament building and began paying Haitians to turn in weapons to reduce firepower on the streets.
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1996: Rebels seized control of Afghanistan from the previous rebel group that had taken the country from Moscow. The new rebels hanged Afghani leader Mohammad Najibullah and his brother.
1998: Gerhard Schroeder led Germany’s Social Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections, bringing to an end 16 years of power by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Party. St. Louis Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire set an all-time major-league season home run record when he hit his 70th home run. Barry Bonds eclipsed that mark in 2001 when he hit 73 homers.
2003: U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would join forces to oppose nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea.
2007: Nine people were reported killed and another 100 injured as the Myanmar military junta sought to break up nine days of demonstrations by Buddhist monks and nuns in Yangon over the more than doubling of gas prices. The U.S. Senate voted to attach a measure that would extend federal hate-crime protection to sexual orientation to the defense authorization bill.
2008: Zhai Zhigang left the Shenzhou VII spacecraft and became the first Chinese astronaut to take a space walk. A bomb made of more than 400 pounds of explosives killed 17 people near a Shiite shrine in Damascus — Syria’s worst attack in more than 20 years.
2009: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was assured of another term when her party, the Christian Democrats, easily won the nation’s parliamentary elections.
2010: U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Small Business Jobs Act into law, touting it as an economic building block. The measure set up a $30 billion loan fund and provided $12 billion in tax breaks to aid small businesses. Southwest Airlines, the biggest low-cost carrier in the United States, bought AirTran Airways, a competitor in the discount air travel business, for $1.4 billion. Deaths: Jimi Heselden, 62, manufacturer of the upright Segway scooter, was killed in Britain when he apparently lost control of one of the two-wheeled, self-balancing machines and ran over a cliff into a river.
2011: An estimated 20,000 surface-to-air missiles said to be capable of shooting down a commercial jet were reported missing from unguarded army weapons warehouses in Libya. Israel approved construction of 1,100 new housing units in Jerusalem, sparking outrage among Palestinians and disapproval from foreign leaders.
Quotes
“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.” – William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US patriot:
“He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.”
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.”
“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
decorticate
PRONUNCIATION: (dee-KOR-ti-kayt)
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MEANING: verb tr.: To remove the outer layer, such as the bark, husk, rind, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin decorticare (to peel), from de- (from) + cortex (bark). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut), which is also the source of skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, scrape, and excoriate. Earliest documented use: 1611.
USAGE: “The idea, the sensation, the moment of intuition are decorticated and communicated with intimacy and lucidity.” – Marguerite Dorian; Demon in Brackets; World Literature Today; Jun 1995.
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