Today in History (November 4th):
Daylight saving time ends in the United States.
1879: Birthdays: Humorist Will Rogers.
1913: Birthdays: Actor Gig Young.
1916: Birthdays: Journalist Walter Cronkite.
1918: Birthdays: Actor Art Carney.
1919: Birthdays: Actor Martin Balsam.
1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of ancient Egypt’s child-king, Tutankhamen.
1925: Birthdays: Actor Doris Roberts.
1937: Birthdays: Actor Loretta Swit.
1946: Birthdays: Former U.S. first lady Laura Bush; Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
1950: Birthdays: Novelist Charles Frazier; Actor Markie Post.
1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, ending 20 years of Democratic administrations.
1956: Soviet forces entered Budapest to crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary.
1961: Birthdays: Actor Ralph Macchio.
1962: Birthdays: Television personality Jeff Probst.
1969: Birthdays: Actor Matthew McConaughey; Singer/actor/songwriter Sean Puffy Combs.
1979: Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking some 90 people hostage, 63 of them Americans.
1980: Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th U.S. president in a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1991: Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, returned home, ending more than five years of exile in the United States.
1993: Canadian Liberal Party leader Jean Chretien was sworn in as prime minister.
1994: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to withdraw the remaining 17,000 U.N. troops from Somalia by mid-March 1995.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
2002: Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston apologized for assigning priests who may have been sexually abusive to parishes where they continued to have access to children.
2003: The elevation of a gay Episcopal priest to bishop prompted worldwide opposition, including a remark from a Kenya cleric, The devil has clearly entered our church.
2004: Medical sources in Paris confirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was brain dead. However, doctors denied they had removed Arafat from life support.
2005: Protests turned violent at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina where demonstrators threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at security. However, thousands of protesters were peaceful during a meeting of 34 world leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush.
2006: Six Arab nations — Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates — announced plans to pursue nuclear energy.
2008: Barack Obama, a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, was elected the first African-American president of the United States, taking 338 electoral votes to 161 for Republican John McCain. Californians voted to outlaw same-sex marriage again, overturning a May decision by the state supreme court that such couples had a constitutional right to wed.
2009: The U.S. government, in separate actions, took steps to expand economic aid to the unemployed, first-time homebuyers and homeowners facing foreclosure.
2010: Republicans gained 63 seats to seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Democrats but lost a bid to win the Senate majority also in the 2010 midterm elections.
2011: The U.S. unemployment rate declined slightly to 9 percent in October after hovering at 9.1 for several months. Also in October, 80,000 jobs were added, four times better than the average new jobs during the summer months.
Quotes
“We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.” – Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright, and novelist (b. 1933)
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Will Rogers (1879-1935) US actor, humorist:
“My forefathers didn’t come over on the Mayflower but they met the boat.”
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”
“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.”
“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”
“America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.”
“I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him ‘father.'”
“An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.”
“An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.”
“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
emulous
PRONUNCIATION: (EM-yuh-luhs)
http://wordsmith.org/words/emulous.mp3
MEANING: adjective:
1. Eager to imitate, equal, or to surpass another.
2. Jealous or envious.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aemulus. Ultimately from the Indo-European root aim- (copy), which also gave us emulate, imitate, image, and imagine. Earliest documented use: 1398.
USAGE: “This show feels assembled by an emulous shopaholic who looked around at the tourist-drawing hits of the last decade and said: ‘I want some of that. And that. Ooh, and can I have that, too?'” – Ben Brantley; Sisterhood vs. Boss; The New York Times; May 1, 2009.
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emote
PRONUNCIATION: (i-MOHT)
http://wordsmith.org/words/emote.mp3
MEANING: verb intr.: To express emotion in an excessive or theatrical manner.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from emotion, from Old French esmovoir (to excite, stir up), from Latin emovere (to remove or displace), from ex- (out of) + movere (to move). Earliest recorded use: 1917.
USAGE: “Doctors are trained to always look serious and never emote.” – Ninad Siddhaye; Doctors Self-Medicate With Theatre; Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai, India); Oct 9, 2010.
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