Today in History (November 26th):
1604: Birthdays: German composer Johannes Bach.
1607: Birthdays: English clergyman and college benefactor John Harvard.
1731: Birthdays: English poet William Cowper.
1778: Captain James Cook became the first European to visit Maui.
1789: U.S. President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. It was the first U.S. holiday by presidential proclamation.
1832: The first streetcar railway in America started public service in New York City from City Hall to 14th Street. The car was pulled by a horse and the fare was 12 1/2 cents. Birthdays: Surgeon and women’s rights leader Mary Walker Edwards.
1842: The University of Notre Dame was founded in South Bend, Ind.
1853: Birthdays: Gambler, frontier lawman and sports writer William Bat Masterson.
1876: Birthdays: Air conditioning engineer Willis Carrier.
1908: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Lefty Gomez.
1909: Birthdays: French playwright Eugene Ionesco.
1912: Birthdays: TV journalist Eric Sevareid.
1919: Birthdays: Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl.
1922: In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and George Carnarvon became the first humans to enter King Tutankhamen’s treasure-laden tomb in more than 3,000 years. Birthdays: Cartoonist Charles Schulz (Peanuts).
1931: Birthdays: Argentine pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
1933: Birthdays: Singer Robert Goulet.
1938: Birthdays: Impressionist Rich Little.
1939: Birthdays: Singer Tina Turner.
1940: German Nazis forced 500,000 Jews in Warsaw to live in a ghetto surrounded by an 8-foot concrete wall.
1941: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted U.S. proposals to the Japanese peace envoys in Washington.
1944: Birthdays: Pop singer Jean Terrell.
1945: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member John McVie.
1946: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Art Shell.
1956: Deaths: Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at age 51. His records sold more than 110 million copies.
1965: France launched a satellite into space, becoming the world’s third space power after the United States and the Soviet Union.
1984: The United States and Iraq restored diplomatic relations, ending a 17-year break.
1992: The United States offered to send up to 20,000 U.S. ground troops to civil war-torn Somalia as part of a U.N. force to get relief supplies to the starving populace.
1997: The price of gold in New York City fell to $298 per ounce, the lowest level in 12 years.
2001: A three-day Afghanistan prison revolt claimed the life of a CIA operative, Johnny Michael Spann, 32, a former U.S. Marine captain and the first U.S. combat casualty of the war.
2003: The U.N. nuclear watchdog passed a resolution condemning Iran’s nuclear program but stopped short of recommending sanctions.
2004: A man broke into a high school dormitory in central China and killed eight students with a knife as they were sleeping. The killer got away.
2005: Police officials said at least 30 people were killed and injured in a series of bombings and armed attacks in Iraq. A 67-year-old textile tycoon in India, Vijaypat Singhania, set a world’s altitude record of 69,852 feet in a hot air balloon over Mumbai.
2006: Russia’s state-run arms exporter denied Russian news agency reports it had begun delivering Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran.
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2007: Riots broke out in suburban Paris after two teenagers on a stolen motorcycle were killed when they hit a police car.
2008: Militants launched a series of coordinated attacks on Mumbai landmarks and commercial hubs popular with foreign tourists, killing at least 173 people and wounding about 300 more.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama announced a 10-year, nationwide effort to move U.S. students to the head of the global class in science and math achievement. Saudi Arabia’s heaviest rain in years left about 100 people dead, officials said, lashing Jeddah and the adjacent holy places of Mina, Muzdalifah and Arafath and interrupting the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
2010: A long-running undercover FBI operation foiled an alleged attempt to bomb a popular Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore. A 19-year-old Somali immigrant was arrested. 66 percent of U.S. voters polled in a national survey said the country was headed in the wrong direction.
2011: Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of violence-wracked Yemen for 33 years, obeyed an earlier agreement and stepped down, the fourth Arab leader swept away by protests in the year.
Quotes
“It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.” – Richard Bentley
“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson, 1630-1694
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” – Thales, 624 BC-546 BC
“Midlife has hit you when you stand naked in front of a mirror and can see your rear end without turning around.” – Anonymous
“The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment.” – Anonymous
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) US cartoonist:
“In the book of life’s questions, the answers are not in the back.”
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
“I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.”
“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”
“It doesn’t matter what you believe just so long as you’re sincere.”
“Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
concinnity
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-SIN-i-tee)
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MEANING: noun: A harmonious arrangement of various parts.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin concinnare (to put in order). Earliest documented use: 1531.
USAGE: “There was a moment of inner peace in which belief and doubt merged into a strangely comforting concinnity.” – Thomas Dulski; To Emily on the Ecliptic; Analog Science Fiction & Fact; Jul/Aug 2004.
grub
PRONUNCIATION: (grehb)
MEANING: (noun) – (Western US Slang) Plain food, ‘eats,’ victuals; also, a thick white larva of some insects that spends its life digging through the soil.
ETYMOLOGY: Speaking of grub, some of the best is the cured salmon known as gravlax, from Swedish grava “to bury” + lax “lox,” named for the original process of curing it in the ground. The same root that produced “grava,” turned up in Old English grybban “to dig,” which ultimately became “grub.” Because pigs and other animals usually grub for food, the word “grub” also became cowboy slang for “food.” In Middle Dutch the same root emerged as groeve “ditch,” which was borrowed by English as “groove.” The Old English word for “ditch” was “graef,” which today is “grave.” We don’t actually advocate using today’s word in its first meaning: it is substandard slang originating in the speech of the American cowboy. On a cattle drive, grub was simple but hot, served up around the chuck wagon, which carried the provisions for the drive.
USAGE: “That was some grub you rustled up for us tonight, Cookie; where did you dig it up?”