Today in History (May 6th):
1527: German troops sacked Rome, killing 4,000 people and looting works of art and literature as part of a series of wars between the Hapsburg Empire and the French monarchy.
1758: Birthdays: French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre.
1856: Birthdays: Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud; Arctic explorer Robert Peary.
1863: Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
1868: Birthdays: French writer Gaston Leroux.
1889: The Eiffel Tower was officialy opened to the public.
1895: Birthdays: Silent screen star Rudolph Valentino.
1903: Birthdays: Restaurateur Toots Shor.
1913: Birthdays: Actor Stewart Granger.
1915: Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit his first major league home run in a game against the New York Yankees. Birthdays: Actor-director-writer Orson Welles; Author Theodore White.
1931: Birthdays: Baseball legend Willie Mays.
1935: In the depths of the Depression, the Works Progress Administration was established to provide work for the unemployed.
1937: The German dirigible Hindenburg burst into flames while docking in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 people.
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
1941: Josef Stalin became official leader of the Soviet government.
1945: Birthdays: Rock musician Bob Seger.
1953: Birthdays: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
1954: 25-year-old British medical student Roger Bannister cracked track and field’s most famous barrier, the 4-minute mile, during a meet at Oxford, England. His time: 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.
1955: Birthdays: TV host Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars).
1960: Birthdays: Musician John Flansburgh; Actor Roma Downey.
1961: Birthdays: Actor George Clooney.
1972: Birthdays: NHL record-holding goaltender Martin Brodeur.
1992: Legendary actor Marlene Dietrich died at her Paris home at age 90.
1993: Two postal workers, apparently bitter over their treatment at work, allegedly shot co-workers in incidents in post offices in Michigan and California, leaving at least three dead and three wounded.
1994: Paula Jones accused U.S. President Bill Clinton of making an unwanted sexual advance during a meeting in a hotel room in 1991 when he was governor of Arkansas. It was believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind against a sitting president. The Channel Tunnel, a railway under the English Channel connecting Britain and France, was officially opened.
1997: U.S. President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon signed an agreement for broader mutual efforts to fight drug trafficking.
2001: Pope John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque — the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.
2006: The largest rebel group in Sudan’s Darfur region and the government of Sudan signed a peace agreement ending their armed conflict in a three-year civil war that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. Unbeaten Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby by 6 1/2 lengths.
2007: Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France with 53 percent of the vote in a runoff battle with Socialist Sergolene Royal.
2009: Maine voters approved same-sex marriages, joining fellow New Englanders Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut. Dave Bing, Hall of Fame star for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons, was elected mayor of Detroit, succeeding ousted Kwame Kilpatrick.
2010: British voters gave the Conservatives control of Parliament, making David Cameron, 43, Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years.
2011: The U.S. economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent.
2012: Socialist leader Francois Hollande was elected president of France.
Quotes
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – George Herman “Babe” Ruth, 1895-1948
“We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.” – Juvenal, 55 AD-127 AD
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese proverb
“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?” – Steven Wright
“You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.” – Drew Carey
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist:
“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“Anatomy is destiny.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
munificent
PRONUNCIATION: (myoo-NIF-i-suhnt)
MEANING: (adjective), Very liberal in giving or bestowing; very generous; lavish.
ETYMOLOGY: Munificent is from Latin munificus, “generous, bountiful,” from munus, “gift.” The quality of being munificent is munificence.
USAGE: “Just when it seemed the station was about to close forever, a munificent benefactor bestowed sufficient funds for its operation well into the next decade.”
niggler
PRONUNCIATION: (NIG-luhr)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. A person who pays excessive attention to petty details.
2. A person who criticizes constantly or repeatedly.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown, perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1781.
USAGE: “A niggler might note that every element is at times an eensy bit too perfectly meshed and worked over. Today, I don’t feel like niggling.” – Lisa Schwarzbaum; Hugo; Entertainment Weekly (New York); Nov 30, 2011.
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tenable
PRONUNCIATION: (TEN-uh-buhl)
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MEANING: (adjective), Capable of being held or defended.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tenable, from tenir (to hold), from Latin tenere (to hold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, and detente. Earliest documented use: 1604.
USAGE: “Pretending that countries can somehow ‘go it alone’ is no longer tenable: we trade with each other, we invest in each other, and we employ each other’s workers.” – Stephen King; We’re Stuck in a Time of Economic Permafrost; The Times (London, UK); Dec 27, 2011.
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