Today in History (February 18th):
1229: Emperor Frederick II signed a truce, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem for the Holy Roman Empire.
1841: The first filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It ended March 11.
1848: Birthdays: Stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany.
1856: The American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, nominated its first presidential candidate, former U.S. President Millard Fillmore. But, he carried only Maryland and the party soon vanished.
1861: Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
1865: After a long Civil War siege, Union naval forces captured Charleston, S.C.
1884: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published.
1898: Birthdays: Italian automaker Enzo Ferrari.
1919: Birthdays: Actor Jack Palance.
1920: Birthdays: Game show host Bill Cullen.
1922: Birthdays: Author and magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown.
1925: Birthdays: Actor George Kennedy.
1929: Birthdays: Novelist Len Deighton.
1930: Pluto, once identified as the ninth planet of the solar system, was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Birthdays: Cartoonist Gahan Wilson.
1931: Birthdays: Novelist Toni Morrison; Cartoonist Johnny Hart.
1932: Birthdays: Filmmaker Milos Forman.
1933: Birthdays: Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon.
1950: Birthdays: Actor Cybill Shepherd; Film director John Hughes.
1954: The Church of Scientology was established in Los Angeles. Birthdays: Actor John Travolta.
1957: Birthdays: Game show icon Vanna White.
1960: Birthdays: Actor Greta Scacchi.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Matt Dillon.
1965: Birthdays: Rapper and record producer Dr. Dre.
1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 62.
1968: Birthdays: Actor Molly Ringwald.
1979: Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time.
1993: A ferry carrying more than 800 people capsized off Haiti’s western coast, killing at least 150 people with several hundred others missing and presumed drowned.
2001: A 25-year veteran of the FBI, Robert Hanssen, was arrested near his suburban Washington home and charged with spying for the Russians. Dale Earnhardt Sr., stock-car racing’s top driver, was killed in a crash in the final turn of the final lap of the Daytona 500. He was 49.
2003: Around 200 people died in a South Korea subway fire set by a man authorities say apparently was upset at his doctors.
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2004: 40 chemical and fuel-laden runaway rail cars derailed in northeastern Iran, producing an explosion that killed at least 265 people.
2005: A panel of experts voted to advise the FDA that popular painkillers Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx can cause heart problems. At least four blasts rocked Baghdad and killed at least 20 people as Shiites began observing the holy period of Ashura. Dozens more Iraqis died in similar sectarian attacks the next day.
2006: The militant Hamas party took over the Palestinian legislature as a result of the January election. 16 people died in rioting in Nigeria over published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that enraged Muslims around the world, coming one week after riots in Libya and Pakistan despite pleas for calm from Muslim governments.
2007: An explosion on a train in northern India and the resulting fire killed 66 people and injured more than 50 others. India’s railways minister called it an act of terrorism.
2008: Opponents of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won the majority of seats in parliamentary elections. The winner was the Pakistan People’s Party, headed by Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto. Two of four masterpieces stolen from the Zurich museum a week earlier, a Monet and a van Gogh, were found in perfect condition in the back seat of an unlocked car in Zurich.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama announced a $75 billion plan to help struggling homeowners refinance mortgages and prevent foreclosure. He claimed the plan would help housing prices return to earlier values and improve struggling neighborhoods.
2010: A man reportedly holding a grudge against the U.S. government and its tax system crashed his light plane into an office of the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas, killing himself and two others.
2011: Bahraini troops opened fire on anti-government protesters with death toll reports ranging as high as 30. Another 24 demonstrators were reported killed in Libya. The United States cast a veto to kill a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israel’s West Bank settlement construction to be illegal. The other 14 council members voted for the proposal.
2012: Two Iranian warships sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea amid heightened tensions in the region, only the second time such ships have crossed the canal since the Islamic Republic’s 1979 revolution.
Quotes
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)
“We’d like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you’ll think of US Airways.” – Part of a flight attendant’s arrival announcement
“Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.” – Marcel Archard
Toni Morrison (1931- ) American Author:
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
“If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
“There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
“When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.”
malapropism
PRONUNCIATION: (MAL-uh-prop-iz-ehm)
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MEANING: (noun), The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word. For example, “pineapple of perfection” for “pinnacle of perfection”.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan’s play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner. Earliest documented use: 1830.
USAGE: “Mayor Thomas Menino is sometimes made fun of for his malapropisms; he once said the city’s parking shortage was ‘an Alcatraz* around my neck’.” – Katharine Q. Seelye; Ailing Mayor of Boston Says He’s Still Up to the Job; The New York Times; Dec 17, 2012. *albatross
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