Today in History (October 1st):
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
1781: Birthdays: Navy Capt. James Lawrence, hero of the War of 1812.
1893: Birthdays: Novelist Faith Baldwin.
1903: The first World Series opened in Boston. The Boston Pilgrims of the American League closed out the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League in the eighth game of a best-of-nine series. Birthdays: Pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
1908: Henry Ford introduced the Model-T automobile.
1910: Birthdays: Outlaw Bonnie Parker.
1914: Birthdays: Historian Daniel Boorstin.
1920: Birthdays: Actor Walter Matthau.
1921: Birthdays: Actor James Whitmore.
1924: Birthdays: Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States; Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
1927: Birthdays: Actor Tom Bosley.
1928: Birthdays: Actor George Peppard; Actor Laurence Harvey.
1930: Birthdays: Actor Richard Harris.
1935: Birthdays: Actor Julie Andrews.
1938: Birthdays: Actor Stella Stevens.
1945: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Rod Carew.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Stephen Collins.
1949: Mao Zedong and other communist leaders formally proclaimed establishment of the People’s Republic of China.
1950: Birthdays: Actor Randy Quaid.
1962: Birthdays: Actor Esai Morales.
1963: Birthdays: Former home run champ Mark McGwire.
1974: Former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and four other Nixon administration officials went on trial on Watergate coverup charges.
1991: The United States suspended economic aid to Haiti and refused to recognize the military junta that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1992: Dallas billionaire Ross Perot announced his candidacy for the presidency. He called his group the Reform Party. A missile accidentally fired by the USS Saratoga struck a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing nine Turkish sailors.
1995: 10 Muslims were convicted of conspiring to conduct a terrorist campaign in the New York City area aimed at forcing the United States to drop its support of Egypt and Israel.
2001: About 40 people were killed when a militant Muslim group attacked the legislative assembly building in the Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir.
2004: The U.S. army said it killed 109 Sunni insurgents in a major offensive with Iraqi national guards against the city of Samara.
2005: 36 people, mostly foreign tourists, died in explosions at two resort restaurants on the island of Bali. More than 100 others were reported injured.
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2010: 15 attackers, armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles, destroyed at least 27 tanker trucks carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan at a fuel station in southern Pakistan. Drivers were chased away before the trucks were set on fire. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel resigned to run for mayor of Chicago.
2011: About 400 Occupy Wall Street protesters, close to half of those who took part in demanding U.S. social and economic policy change, were arrested by New York City police when they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. Allegations of torture and rights abuses by rebels who overthrew Moammar Gadhafi’s regime began emerging from Libya.
Quotes
“If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.” – John B. Gough, 1817-1886
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
“Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.” – Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888
“Don’t give up the ship.” – dying words – Capt. James Lawrence, American naval hero (navy motto)
Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) US writer:
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”
“Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”
“You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.”
“Men’s private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world’s seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”
“One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.”
“Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations.”
protean
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-TEE-uhn)
http://wordsmith.org/words/protean.mp3
MEANING: adjective:
1. Assuming many forms: variable.
2. Able to handle many different things, as roles in a play. Versatile.
ETYMOLOGY: After Proteus, a sea god in Greek mythology, who could assume different forms. He got his name from Greek protos (first) as he was one of the earliest sea gods. Earliest documented use: 1594.
USAGE: “Bruce Chatwin: Such a protean character, a man of many parts. A man who loved the austere but was also flamboyant in manner.” – Thor Kah Hoong; Protean Character; The Star (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia); Feb 27, 2007.
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