Today in History (August 23rd):
1305: Scottish patriot leader William Wallace was executed for treason.
1852: Birthdays: British economist Arnold Toynbee;
1868: Birthdays: Poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters;
1875: Birthdays: British radio pioneer William Eccles;
1883: Birthdays: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan in World War II;
1884: Birthdays: Humorist Will Cuppy;
1905: Birthdays: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (creator of Nancy);
1912: Birthdays: Dancer/actor/director Gene Kelly;
1913: Birthdays: Bandleader/singer Bob Crosby;
1922: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member George Kell;
1926: The death of silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino sent his fans into hysterical mourning.
1927: Despite worldwide demonstrations in their behalf, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder.
1929: Birthdays: Actor Vera Miles;
1932: Birthdays: Political comedian Mark Russell;
1934: Birthdays: Actor Barbara Eden; Football Hall of Fame member Sonny Jurgensen;
1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. Less than two years later, Germany launched a blitzkrieg attack on Russia.
1946: Birthdays: Rock drummer Keith Moon of The Who;
1949: Birthdays: Actor Shelley Long; Singer/actor Rick Springfield;
1951: Birthdays: Jordan’s Queen Noor;
1970: Birthdays: Actor Jay Mohr; Actor River Phoenix;
1978: Birthdays: Pro basketball star Kobe Bryant.
1982: Beirut Christian leader Beshir Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was assassinated less than one month later and was succeeded by his brother, Amin.
1991: Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin pressured Soviet President Gorbachev into replacing his Cabinet in the wake of a failed coup.
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2003: A former priest who had been in the forefront of the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church was strangled, apparently by another inmate, at a Massachusetts prison.
2006: Amnesty International accused Israel of war crimes for allegedly targeting civilians in its fight with Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
2007: Flooding in the upper U.S. Midwest drove thousands of people from their homes. Hardest hit were Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio. Wildfires, meanwhile, raged out of control in California, Idaho and Montana. Military authorities investigated the crash of a U.S. helicopter that apparently malfunctioned and crashed in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing 14 military personnel aboard.
2008: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., confirmed he chose U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed U.S. airstrikes for the deaths of 95 civilians.
2009: Authorities in Athens, Greece, urged 20,000 people to evacuate as raging wildfires threatened a suburb of the city.
2010: Rescue workers at a caved-in gold and copper mine in northern Chile made contact with 33 men trapped nearly 2,300 feet underground for 17 days who had found refuge in a small emergency shelter that had water and ventilation. In a remarkable, unrelenting effort, all hands were rescued two months later.
2011: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake, unusually strong for the eastern United States, rattled Washington and Virginia with shockwaves as far north as Canada. The quake was the strongest to hit Virginia in more than a century, briefly causing a power shutdown at a nuclear plant. The Washington Monument and the National Cathedral in Washington were damaged by the quake. A U.N. report said more than 2,200 people had been killed in Syria’s 5-month long crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
Quotes
“Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.” – Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)
“Don’t try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ and don’t ever look over your shoulder.” – Ogden Nash
Will Cuppy (1884-1949) US writer:
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”
“Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.”
“The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.”
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