Today in History (June 27th):
1801: British forces captured Cairo and the French began withdrawing from Egypt in one of the Napoleonic Wars.
1829: English scientist James Smithson left a will that eventually funded the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, in a country he never visited.
1844: Mormon founder Joseph Smith was slain by a mob at a jail in Carthage, Ill.
1846: Birthdays: Irish patriot Charles Stewart Parnell.
1847: The first telegraph wire links were established between New York City and Boston.
1859: Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher Mildred Hill wrote a tune for her students and called it Good Morning To You. Her sister, Patty, wrote the lyrics and later added a verse that began Happy Birthday To You.
1869: Birthdays: Anarchist Emma Goldman.
1872: Birthdays: Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
1880: Birthdays: Blind and deaf author Helen Keller.
1893: The Panic of 1893 began as the value of the U.S. silver dollar fell to less than 60 cents in gold.
1913: Birthdays: Billiards champion Willie Mosconi.
1927: Birthdays: Captain Kangaroo Bob Keeshan.
1930: Birthdays: H. Ross Perot.
1942: Birthdays: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Bruce Johnston (the Beach Boys).
1945: Birthdays: Fashion designer Norma Kamali.
1949: Birthdays: Fashion designer Vera Wang.
1950: U.S. President Harry Truman ordered naval and air forces to help repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Julia Duffy.
1955: Birthdays: Actor Isabelle Adjani.
1966: Birthdays: Film and television writer/director/producer J.J. Abrams.
1972: Nolan Bushnell established ATARI.
1974: Birthdays: Actor Christian Kane.
1975: Birthdays: Actor Tobey Maguire.
1979: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled private employers could give special preferences to blacks to eliminate manifest racial imbalance in traditionally white-only jobs.
1984: Birthdays: Celebrity Khloe Kardashian.
1991: Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall announced he was retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the first African-American to sit on the high court.
1995: The space shuttle Atlantis was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a historic mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
2001: Screen legend Jack Lemmon died at the age of 76.
2003: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a long-awaited nationwide registry for those who want to block unwanted telemarketing calls.
2005: Dennis Rader, the so-called BTK (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area.
2007: Tony Blair officially stepped down as British prime minister when he submitted his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II and was succeeded by Gordon Brown.
2008: Despite sharp, widespread opposition, the violent Zimbabwean presidential runoff election went as scheduled, with incumbent Robert Mugabe re-elected as the only candidate left in the race. Challenger Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn citing escalating violence against his supporters.
2009: A top health official said the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, killed 127 people of the more than 1 million infected in the United States. About 3,000 were reported hospitalized.
2010: The mineral-rich but poor West African nation of Guinea, which won its independence from France in 1958, had its first democratic election but its bid to name a new president went into a runoff that took until November to decide.
2011: A federal court jury in Chicago convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 felony corruption charges that included trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after the 2008 presidential election.
2012: Tanzanian Deputy Interior Minister Pereira Silima said about 42 migrants died of asphyxiation riding in a truck packed with more than 120 people.
Quotes
“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” – Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) U.S. writer:
“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
digerati
PRONUNCIATION: (dij-uh-RAH-tee)
MEANING: (plural noun), Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
ETYMOLOGY: Digerati was formed by analogy with literati, “persons knowledgeable about literature.”
USAGE: “With their seeming ability to bypass any computer security system with a few keystrokes, Jack and Freddie considered themselves amongst the most elite of the digerati.”
chameleonic
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-mee-lee-ON-ik)
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MEANING: (adjective), Given to quick or frequent change.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin chamaeleon, from Greek khamaileon, from khamai (on the ground) + leon (lion). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chamomile, chthonic, disinter, inhume, exhume, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1821.
USAGE: “Bonnie McKee’s chameleonic hair color mirrors her divergent writing styles.” – Shirley Halperin & Bob Love; Pop’s Top 35 Hitmakers; Hollywood Reporter; Feb 15, 2013.
monish
PRONUNCIATION: (MON-ish)
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MEANING: (verb tr.) To warn; to admonish.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French amonester (to warn, to urge), from Latin monere (to warn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (to think) which is the source of mind, mnemonic, mosaic, music, mentor, money, mandarin, and Sanskrit mantra. Earliest documented use: before 1382.
USAGE: “I believe that I have monished him with his greatest fears.” – Dan Clore; The Unspeakable and Others; Wildside Press; 2001.
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coprolalia
PRONUNCIATION: (kop-ruh-LAY-lee-uh)
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MEANING: (noun), An uncontrollable or obsessive use of obscene language.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek copro- (dung) + -lalia (chatter, babbling), from lalein (to talk). A related word is coprolite.
NOTES: Involuntary coprolalia is found in approximately 15% of the people who suffer from Tourette’s syndrome. It has even been observed in deaf people who use sign language — they swear in sign language.
USAGE: “That the brain’s executive overseer is ablaze in an outburst of coprolalia, Dr. Silbersweig said, demonstrates how complex an act the urge to speak the unspeakable may be.” – Natalie Angier; Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore; The New York Times; Sep 20, 2005.
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