Today in History (October 23rd):
1707: The British Parliament met for the first time.
1835: Birthdays: Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. vice president under Grover Cleveland from 1893-97.
1869: Birthdays: Pioneering college football coach John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
1873: Birthdays: William Coolidge, inventor of the X-ray tube.
1892: Birthdays: Vaudevillian Milton Gummo Marx.
1904: Birthdays: Golf Hall of Fame member Harvey Penick.
1905: Birthdays: Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel.
1925: Birthdays: Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson.
1935: Birthdays: Pro golfer Juan Chi Chi Rodriguez.
1940: Birthdays: Brazilian soccer star Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento).
1942: The British Eighth Army launched an offensive at El Alamein in Egypt, a World War II battle that eventually swept the Germans out of North Africa. Birthdays: Author Michael Crichton.
1945: Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player hired by a major league team, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and sent to their Montreal farm team. He moved up to the Dodgers in 1947 and became one of the sport’s greatest stars.
1954: Birthdays: Filmmaker Ang Lee.
1956: Birthdays: Singer Dwight Yoakam.
1959: Birthdays: Singer Weird Al Yankovic; Television talk show host Nancy Grace.
1962: Birthdays: Former football star Doug Flutie; Former football star Mike Tomczak.
1972: Earthquakes killed more than 10,000 people in Nicaragua.
1976: Birthdays: Actor Ryan Reynolds.
1983: Suicide bomb attacks on peacekeeping troops in Beirut killed 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French soldiers.
1989: Hungary formally declared an end to 40 years of communist rule and proclaimed itself a republic, setting the stage for creation of Western-style democracy in the Eastern Bloc state.
1990: Iraq released 64 British hostages.
1995: The U.S. Defense Department announced it was ending a program designed to help minority-owned firms secure government contracts.
1998: After nine days of tense negotiations at the Wye Conference Center in Queenstown, Md., Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed an agreement to revive the stalled Middle East peace process. Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who performed abortions, was killed by a sniper who fired a bullet through a window of Slepian’s home in Amherst, N.Y.
2002: A group of 20 Chechen gunmen stormed a Moscow theater, taking hostage more than 700 members of the audience, actors and theater staff and demanding an end to the war in the separatist republic.
2003: The U.S. Congress passed legislation banning late-term abortions.
2004: Insurgents struck at three minibuses carrying U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers, reportedly killing about 50 of them.
2005: All 117 people aboard were reported killed in the crash of a Nigerian plane crash shortly after takeoff from Lagos.
2006: Iran said it is ready to have talks on its nuclear program while other reports spoke of threatened retaliation if U.N. sanctions were imposed. Panamanians voted overwhelmingly to support a proposal to expand the Panama Canal to allow larger ships to pass through.
2008: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a U.S. House committee the United States is in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami that left him in a state of shocked disbelief.
2010: Prime Minister David Thompson of the Caribbean nation of Barbados died of pancreatic cancer. He was 48. More than 1,500 people have died of cholera in Nigeria since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials reported.
2011: Southeastern Turkey was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,100, with thousands of others left homeless in the mostly Kurdish area. Hardest hit was the town of Ercis where officials said at least 455 died.
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Quotes
“Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.” – Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)
“Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” – Peter, Apostle
Robert Bridges (1844-1930) English writer:
“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru’ the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.”
“Behind the western bars The shrouded day retreats, And unperceived the stars Steal to their sovran seats. And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before. The Clouds have left the Sky.”
“Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.”
“But I can tell – let truth be told – That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.”
“I have loved flowers that fade, Within those magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents.”
“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”
“I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.”
“Man’s Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho’ she guide his highest flight heav’nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can delicately and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.”
histrionics
PRONUNCIATION: (his-tree-ON-iks)
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MEANING: noun:
1. Melodramatic or hysterical behavior calculated for effect.
2. Theatrical performances.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin histrio (actor). Earliest documented use: 1824.
USAGE: “The notion that men can face adversity with stoicism while women are more likely to respond with histrionics is just one example of the gender stereotypes that permeate our culture.” – Kayt Sukel; Pink Brains, Blue Brains, Purple People; New Scientist (London, UK); May 26, 2012.
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illation
PRONUNCIATION: (i-LAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun
1. The act of inferring.
2. An inference or conclusion drawn.
ETYMOLOGY: From Late Latin illation-, from Latin illatus, past participle of inferre (to bring in), from il- + ferre (to carry).
USAGE: “As her friends were quick to point out, Courtney’s political illations were by any standards excessively childish.”