Today in History (Febuary 4th):
1746: Birthdays: Polish-born American patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
1789: George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential electors who cast votes. John Adams of Massachusetts was elected vice president.
1792: George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as U.S. president in a vote of the Electoral College.
1861: At a convention in Montgomery, Ala., six states — Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina — elected Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy. The 25-year period of conflict known as the Apache War began at Apache Pass, Ariz., with the arrest of Apache Chief Cochise for raiding a ranch. Cochise escaped his U.S. Army captors and declared war.
1881: Birthdays: French cubist painter Fernand Leger.
1895: Birthdays: Actor Nigel Bruce.
1902: Birthdays: Aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1912: Birthdays: Legendary golfer Byron Nelson.
1913: Birthdays: Civil rights activist Rosa Lee Parks.
1918: Birthdays: Actor Ida Lupino.
1921: Birthdays: Feminist Betty Friedan.
1923: Birthdays: Actor Conrad Bain.
1936: Birthdays: Comedian David Brenner.
1938: Adolf Hitler seized control of the German army and put Nazi officers in key posts as part of a plan that led to World War II.
1940: Birthdays: Actor John Schuck.
1947: Birthdays: Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle.
1948: Birthdays: Rock musician Alice Cooper.
1952: Birthdays: Actor Lisa Eichhorn.
1959: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Lawrence Taylor.
1962: Birthdays: Country singer Clint Black.
1970: Birthdays: Actor Gabrielle Anwar.
1973: Birthdays: Boxer Oscar de la Hoya.
1974: Urban guerrillas abducted Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif.
1976: An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale killed nearly 23,000 people in Guatemala and Honduras.
1997: A jury in a civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif., found O.J. Simpson liable in the killings of his former wife and her friend, and was ordered to pay a total of $33.5 million to the families. Simpson had been acquitted in his murder trial.
2004: A Pakistani scientist considered the key figure in his country’s nuclear weaponry development admitted he leaked that technology to other countries. The Massachusetts Supreme Court refused to allow civil union as a substitute for same-sex marriage.
2006: Widespread Muslim protests of published caricatures depicting Muhammad in a negative light turned violent. Angry demonstrators smashed windows, set fires and burned flags and Syrian mobs burned Danish and Norwegian embassies. Nearly 100 people were killed and more than 250 injured in a stampede at a Philippine stadium where thousands were on hand for a popular game show.
2008: U.S. President George W. Bush introduced a $3.1 trillion budget for fiscal 2009, including proposed increases in military spending but cutbacks in most domestic programs.
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2009: The U.S. unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high of 8.1 percent, auto sales sank and housing starts were at their lowest annual level in at least half a century.
2010: Authorities in earthquake devastated Haiti charged 10 American missionaries with child abduction and conspiracy after they allegedly tried to take 33 children across the border to a Dominican Republic orphanage without official permission.
2011: The seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent in January, compared with 9.4 in December. The U.S. Labor Department, however, said non-farm payrolls expanded only 36,000 for the month.
2012: The Syrian military launched a brutal attack on the opposition stronghold city of Homs, killing a reported 260 people and wounding hundreds more in a four-hour assault. Russia and China vetoed an effort by the U.N. Security Council to end the violence in Syria with an Arab Nation peace plan.
Quotes
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” – Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery, 1871-1945
“Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.” – John B. Gough, 1817-1886
“The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.” – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1809-1885
Rosa Lee Parks (1913-2005) American civil-rights activist:
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
“My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.”
“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
blatherskite
PRONUNCIATION: (BLATH-uhr-skyt)
MEANING: (noun)
1. A person who babbles about inane matters.
2. Nonsense; foolish talk.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse blathra (to chatter) + Scots dialect skate (a contemptible person).
USAGE: “Chris wished to clarify that he didn’t prefer lawmaking by politicians to lawmaking by judges because he had some unhealthy fondness for the blatherskites who every four years knocked on his front door and wanted to put up a sign on the lawn.”
uxorious
PRONUNCIATION: (uk-SOHR-ee-uhs)
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MEANING: (adjective), Excessively devoted or submissive toward one’s wife.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin uxor (wife). The feminine counterpart of this word is maritorious. Earliest documented use: 1598.
USAGE: “Mostly, though, Harold Pinter is uxorious — showering his wife with flowers, poems, jewellery, and impeccably chosen books. It is rare to read of a modern marriage maturing into such singular devotion.” – Anne Kingston; Books; Maclean’s (Toronto, Canada); Nov 15, 2010.
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