Today in History (January 21st):
1738: Birthdays: Soldier and Vermont folk hero Ethan Allen.
1793: French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris.
1813: Birthdays: Explorer and historian John Fremont.
1824: Birthdays: Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
1855: Birthdays: Firearms designer John Browning.
1861: Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate, 12 days before Mississippi seceded from the Union. He later became president of the Confederate States of America.
1884: Birthdays: Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1905: Birthdays: French fashion designer Christian Dior; German high-wire walker Karl Wallenda.
1922: Birthdays: Actor Telly Savalas; Actor Paul Scofield.
1924: Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. Birthdays: British comedian Benny Hill.
1938: Birthdays: Famed disc jockey Robert Wolfman Jack Smith.
1940: Birthdays: Golfer Jack Nicklaus.
1941: Birthdays: Opera star Placido Domingo; Folk musician Richie Havens.
1942: Birthdays: Singer Mac Davis; Singer Edwin Starr.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Jill Eikenberry.
1950: Birthdays: Singer Billy Ocean; U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke.
1951: Birthdays: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
1953: Birthdays: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
1954: The world’s first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1956: Birthdays: Actor Robby Benson; Actor Geena Davis.
1963: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Hakeem Olajuwon.
1976: The first commercial supersonic Concorde was put into service by Britain and France. Birthdays: Singer Emma Baby Spice Burton.
1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardoned American Vietnam War-era draft evaders and ordered a case-by-case study of deserters.
1991: Iraq announced that it would use hostages as human shields against allied warplanes.
1997: The full U.S. House of Representatives voted 395-28 to reprimand Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., for violating House rules and misleading congressional investigators looking into his possible misuse of tax-exempt donations for political purposes.
1998: Allegations of U.S. President Bill Clinton’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky became public. Pope John Paul II arrived in Havana for his first visit to Cuba.
2000: A military junta seized power in Ecuador. The next day, following expressions of international concern, junta leaders turned the government over to the country’s vice president.
2003: The U.S. Census Bureau said Hispanics had moved past African-Americans as the largest minority group in the United States.
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2004: A U.S. scientist who had toured North Korea nuclear facilities told the U.S. Congress there was evidence they could produce enriched plutonium.
2005: Iraq officials said $300 million was taken from Baghdad’s central bank and flown to Lebanon. Its whereabouts was unknown.
2007: Afghanistan’s Kabul government was reported planning war against its illegal opium trade with an attack on 55,000 acres of ripening poppies in a leading drug-producing province.
2008: 20 miners were killed in an explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi Province.
2009: Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, who lost a tough fight against Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, won near unanimous Senate confirmation as secretary of state.
2010: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a far-reaching and controversial 5-4 decision, ruled that the government cannot restrict the spending of corporations and unions for political campaigns.
2011: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., said to be the main target in a lethal assault at a Tucson political meeting in which six people died, left a hospital for additional treatment in Houston almost two weeks after she was shot in the head.
2012: Signaling what observers believe to be a new political era in Egypt, Islamist parties won 47 percent of the seats in parliamentary elections.
Quotes
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.” – Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) US Confederate General:
“The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle.”
“Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished.”
“Don’t say it’s impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can’t do it, I’ll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!”
“When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.”
“I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.”
“Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time… Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.”
“Who could not conquer with such troops as these?”
“My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!”
coterminous
PRONUNCIATION: (koh-TUR-muh-nuhs)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Having the same scope, range of meaning, duration.
ETYMOLOGY: Coterminous is from Latin conterminus, from com-, “together; with” + terminus, “boundary.”
USAGE: “As Ronald was fond of pointing out, in a democracy the interests of the people are, or at least should be, coterminous with those of the state.”