Today in History (October 3rd):
1790: Birthdays: Cherokee Chief John Ross, who led opposition to the forced move of his people to what is now Oklahoma.
1800: Birthdays: Historian George Bancroft.
1879: Birthdays: Actor Warner Oland (Charlie Chan).
1889: Birthdays: German pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cal von Ossietzky.
1900: Birthdays: Writer Thomas Wolfe.
1916: Birthdays: Writer James Herriot.
1922: Rebecca Felton, a Georgia Democrat, became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1925: Birthdays: Writer Gore Vidal.
1931: Birthdays: Hockey Hall of Fame member Glenn Hall.
1932: Iraq won its independence after Britain ended its mandate following 17 years of British rule.
1938: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member Eddie Cochran.
1941: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll singer Chubby Checker.
1949: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member Lindsey Buckingham.
1952: Britain successfully tested its first atomic bomb.
1954: Birthdays: Activist Rev. Al Sharpton; Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1955: The children’s TV show Captain Kangaroo with Bob Keeshan in the title role was broadcast for the first time.
1959: Birthdays: Actor/singer Jack Wagner.
1962: Birthdays: Rock drummer Tommy Lee.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Clive Owen.
1967: Folksinger and songwriter Woody Guthrie died at the age of 55.
1972: U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signed strategic arms limitation agreements, putting the first restrictions on the two countries’ nuclear weapons.
1973: Birthdays: Actor Neve Campbell.
1975: Birthdays: Singer India.Arie.
1981: IRA prisoners at Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended a seven-month hunger strike in which 10 men died.
1984: Birthdays: Singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.
1989: Troops loyal to Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega crushed a coup attempt by rebel mid-level officers. Noriega was held briefly by coup plotters but escaped unharmed.
1990: Formerly communist East Germany merged with West Germany, ending 45 years of post-war division.
1992: William Gates III, the college-dropout founder of Microsoft Corp., headed the Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth of $6.3 billion.
1993: Fighting erupted in the streets of Moscow between pro- and anti-Yeltsin forces. Sixty-two people died in the violence that ended two days later when the rebel vice president and speaker of Parliament surrendered.
1995: O.J. Simpson was acquitted of charges that he killed his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. A bomb nearly killed the president of Macedonia, a relatively peaceful part of the former Yugoslavia.
2001: Amid rising concerns about the use of lethal substances by terrorists, the U.S. government said it was planning to stockpile 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
2002: Fear escalated in the Washington area as five people were killed over a 16-hour period in apparent random sniper shootings.
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2005: A Texas grand jury indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the former House of Representatives majority leader, for money laundering. The indictment was aimed at correcting problems with an earlier charge against him.
2007: U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have increased funding of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide health coverage to more than 10 million children. Bush said the proposal was a move toward universal healthcare, which he opposed.
2008: U.S. President George W. Bush signed the $700 billion bailout bill into law. Wachovia National Bank, which would later report a record third-quarter loss of $23.7 billion, agreed to be purchased by Wells Fargo for $15.4 billion. O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant were convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in connection with a 2007 Las Vegas incident. Simpson and five others were charged with stealing sports memorabilia from two collectibles dealers.
2009: General Motors announced it was closing its Saturn line of cars. The 27-nation European Union, with unanimous support after Irish voters backed the project, planned to name a full-time president and strengthen its foreign ministry.
2010: Dilma Rousseff narrowly missed the necessary 50 percent to become Brazil’s next president and was forced into an Oct. 31 runoff with Jose Serra.
2011: Amanda Knox, a U.S. exchange student from Seattle convicted with her boyfriend of sexually assaulting and murdering her British roommate at an Italian college, was set free after serving four years of a 26-year sentence when their convictions were overturned on appeal. Iraqi security forces rescued 13 hostages following an attack by gunmen on a facility west of Baghdad that killed 10 people. Five of the attackers were slain.
Quotes
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” – T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
“Behold this little Bane —
The Boon of all alive —
As common as it is known
The name of it is Love.”
– Emily Dickinson, American poet
George Bancroft (1800-1891) US historian, statesman:
“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”
“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.”
“By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”
“In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.”
“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.”
“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”
bacchanal
PRONUNCIATION: (BAK-uh-nal, -nahl)
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MEANING: noun:
1. A wild and drunken celebration.
2. A drunken reveler.
ETYMOLOGY: After Bacchus, the god of wine in Roman mythology. His Greek equivalent is Dionysus. Earliest documented use: 1536.
USAGE: “The move backfired, encouraging instead a bacchanal of booze, followed by a parade of puking.” – Ben Butler; Corporate Delinquents Drink to Better Times; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Sep 3, 2012.
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