Today in History (October 29th):
Scorpio (October 23rd to November 21st)
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in London. He had been accused of plotting against King James 1.
1740: Birthdays: Scottish biographer James Boswell.
1787: Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had its first performance.
1815: Birthdays: Singer/composer Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the words and music for Dixie.
1891: Birthdays: Comedian/singer Fanny Brice.
1897: Birthdays: Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
1901: Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.
1921: Birthdays: Political cartoonist Bill Mauldin.
1923: The musical Runnin’ Wild, which introduced the Charleston, opened on Broadway.
1929: The sale of 16 million shares marked the collapse of the stock market, setting the stage for the Great Depression.
1938: Birthdays: Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
1944: Birthdays: English rock musician Denny Laine.
1945: Birthdays: Singer Melba Moore.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Richard Dreyfuss.
1948: Birthdays: Actor Kate Jackson.
1957: Birthdays: Actor Dan Castellaneta.
1959: Birthdays: Actor Finola Hughes.
1967: Birthdays: Actor Joely Fisher.
1969: The first connection on what would become the Internet was made when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. This was the beginning of ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet developed by the Department of Defense.
1971: Birthdays: Actor Winona Ryder.
1991: In a first meeting between Soviet and Israeli heads of state, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir conferred at the Soviet Embassy.
1992: Alger Hiss said Russia had cleared him of the charge of being a Communist spy that sent him to prison for four years and helped propel Richard Nixon’s political career.
1994: A Colorado man was arrested after he sprayed the White House with bullets from an assault rifle. U.S. President Bill Clinton was inside at the time but no one was injured.
1998: Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who in 1962 became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery. At 77, he was the oldest person to travel in space.
2004: Osama bin Laden, in a videotape to the American people, admitted he ordered the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. European leaders signed the European Union’s first constitution.
2005: Three explosions in New Delhi hit a bus and markets crowded with holiday shoppers, killing at least 65 people. 102 people died in a train wreck in southern India, where heavy rains caused major flooding.
2006: A Boeing 737 crashed near Nigeria’s Abuja airport killing 96 of the 104 people aboard. Officials said the pilot took off after disobeying an air traffic controller and crashed moments later. 17 instructors and two translators were gunned down at a British-run police academy at Basra, Iraq.
2007: A suicide bomber attacked a police brigade in Iraq, killing 29 people, including 26 police officers.
2008: The death toll from a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan topped 200, officials said, as hundreds of people were hurt and more than 20,000 were left homeless. As nations around the world worked on ways to avoid severe economic woes, the International Monetary Fund announced it would allocate $100 billion to countries with basically healthy economies but short-term problems.
2009: The U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter, the first growth the nation had seen in more than a year.
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2011: At least 13 Americans died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a NATO bus in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was the highest single-day U.S. loss in Afghanistan since a chopper was shot down in August, killing 38. Michael D. Higgins, a 70-year-old poet and longtime member of Ireland’s Parliament, was elected the country’s president with 39.6 percent of the vote.
Quotes
“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.” – John Keats, 1795-1821
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.” – Seneca, 4 BC-AD 65
“Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.” – Madame Du Deffand, 1697-1780
“Indecision may, or may not, be my problem.” – Jimmy Buffett
“It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.” – Daphne Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street
James Boswell (1740-1795) Scottish biographer:
“I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
“A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.”
“He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
“I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.”
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
“I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.”
“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.”
“If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.”
cingular
PRONUNCIATION: (SING-gyuh-luhr)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to a cingulum, an anatomical band or girdle on an animal or plant.
2. Encircling, girdling, surrounding.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cingulum (girdle), from cingere (to gird). Other words that are derived from the same roots are cincture, precinct, shingles, and succinct.
USAGE: “Cedric feared little when he found himself amidst cingular group of gunmen as, should any of them fire, they were as likely to shoot each other as they were him.”
bidentate
PRONUNCIATION: (by-DEN-tayt)
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MEANING: adjective: Having two teeth or toothlike parts.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bi- (two) + dens (tooth). Earliest documented use: 1826.
USAGE: “Noah and his wife humorously feed all the beasts; Noah pours a pail of milk into the hippo’s gaping bidentate mouth.” – Jon Solomon; The Ancient World in the Cinema; Yale University Press; 2001.
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