Today in History (November 27th):
First Night of Hanukkah
1701: Birthdays: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor of the centigrade thermometer.
1759: Town officials in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, evicted the Rev. Francis Gastrell from William Shakespeare’s home after he cut down a 150-year-old tree that had been planted by the writer.
1874: Birthdays: American historian Charles Beard; Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann.
1901: The U.S. War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.
1911: Birthdays: Producer David Merrick.
1917: Birthdays: Entertainer Buffalo Bob Smith (The Howdy Dowdy Show).
1924: The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes place n New York
1937: Birthdays: Writer Gail Sheehy.
1940: Two months after Gen. Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian, were executed. Birthdays: Actor and martial arts star Bruce Lee.
1941: Birthdays: Singer Eddie Rabbitt.
1942: Birthdays: Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix; Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Henry Carr.
1948: Birthdays: Actor James Avery.
1951: Birthdays: Film director Kathryn Bigelow.
1953: Birthdays: Actor Curtis Armstrong.
1955: Birthdays: Bill Nye The Science Guy.
1957: Birthdays: Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy.
1963: Birthdays: Actor Fisher Stevens.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Robin Givens.
1970: A man with a knife attempted to injure Pope Paul VI at Manila Airport in the Philippines.
1976: Birthdays: Actor Jaleel White.
1989: University of Chicago doctors implanted part of a woman’s liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation’s first living donor liver transplant. Virginia certified Douglas Wilder as the nation’s first elected black governor by a margin of 0.38 percent of the vote.
1990: British treasury chief John Major was elected Conservative Party leader, succeeding Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.
1994: Bosnian Serbs took 150 U.N. peacekeepers hostage to prevent NATO airstrikes.
2003: U.S. President George W. Bush swooped into Iraq under the cover of darkness in a surprise visit to U.S. forces in Baghdad to help serve Thanksgiving dinner.
2005: Earthquakes struck China and Iran. At least 17 people died in the quake that rattled eastern China and at least 10 were killed when another tremor hit southern Iran.
2006: While deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein awaited court-ordered execution on his earlier mass murder conviction, Baghdad prosecutors resumed his second trial in which he and six others were charged with crimes against humanity in the deaths of as many as 180,000 Kurds in 1987-88.
2008: Aauthorities say fires and explosions rocked Mumbai 24 hours after coordinated terrorist assaults struck India’s largest city. Gunfire and explosions were reported at the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels and a Jewish center. Deaths: Edna Scott Parker, said to be the oldest person in the world, died at age 115 in Indiana.
2009: The International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution denouncing Iran for building a secret uranium enrichment site. The IAEA, on a 25-3 vote with six members abstaining and China and Russia supporting passage, also demanded the project be halted immediately.
2010: South Korea and the United States shrugged off North Korean warnings and started four days of naval exercises in the Yellow Sea. North Korea, which shelled a South island a few days earlier in an effort to head off the exercises, warned the drills would move the area closer to the brink of war.
2011: Pro-Shiite militants raided a town in northern Yemen, killing at least 24 Sunni Muslims the same day the country got a new interim prime minister. Mohammed Basindwa was named on an interim basis to put together a reconciliation government.
Quotes
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Bruce Lee (1940-1965) Martial artist, actor:
“Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!”
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
lachrymal
PRONUNCIATION: (LAK-ruh-muhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to or inducing tears.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lacrima (tear). Earliest documented use: 1541.
USAGE: “She wiped his tears with the edge of her garment, but that made him more lachrymal.” – Udai Rathor; Kojia, the Ugly; Strategic Book Publishing; 2012.
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coda
PRONUNCIATION: (KO-duh)
MEANING: (noun)
1. The concluding passage of a piece of music, usually independent of the essential parts, added to bring it to a satisfactory close.
2. An additional section at the end of a piece of literature, serving to summarize it or to add related information.
3. Any concluding part.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian coda (tail), from Latin cauda (tail), the source of other words such as queue, coward, French queue (tail) and Spanish cola (tail).
USAGE: “Then came the coda, in Pierpoint’s press conference in which we were reminded what a wonderful flakehead he is.”
redolent
PRONUNCIATION: (RED-uhl-uhnt)
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MEANING: adjective:
1. Fragrant; smelling.
2. Suggestive; reminiscent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French redolent (smelling), from Latin redolent, present participle of redolere (to give off a smell), from re- (intensive prefix) + olere (to smell). Earliest documented use: 1439.
USAGE:
“There’s a heavy dose of irony in the title of Wendy Cope’s new book of poems, Family Values. In fact, the phrase, redolent of hypocritical politicians and the moral majority, makes her want to scream.” – Susan Mansfield; Look Back in Candour; The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland); Apr 9, 2011.
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