Today in History (August 26th):
1676: Birthdays: British statesman Robert Walpole;
1743: Birthdays: French scientist Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry;
1873: Birthdays: Lee De Forest, known as the father of radio:
1904: Birthdays: Poet/novelist Christopher Isherwood;
1906: Birthdays: Bacteriologist Albert Sabin, discoverer of an oral vaccine for polio;
1910: Birthdays: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa;
1920: Women are given the right to vote in the United States when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect.
1934: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Tom Heinsohn;
1935: Birthdays: Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate and first woman to seek so high a position on a major U.S. political party ticket;
1940: Birthdays: Voice actor and movie trailer specialist Don LaFontaine;
1952: Birthdays: Crossword editor Will Shortz;
1960: Birthdays: Jazz musician Branford Marsalis;
1964: Democrats nominated U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey to face the Republicans in November.
1974: Charles Lindbergh died at the age of 72.
1978: Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected the 263rd pope and chose the name John Paul I. He died 33 days later.
1980: Birthdays: Actor Macaulay Culkin; Actor Chris Pine.
1992: U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced a ban on Iraqi military flights over southern Iraq to protect the Shiite Muslims. He said any planes that violate the order would be shot down by U.S.-led coalition forces.
1996: A court in South Korea sentenced former President Chun Doo-hwan to death for the coup that put him in power. His successor, Roh Tae-woo, was sentenced to prison for taking bribes.
2003: The U.N. Security Council denounced as a grave violation of human rights the killings of Kuwaiti prisoners, believed to be in the hundreds, by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime.
2004: A leader in the U.S. Army panel investigating prisoner abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison said the team had discovered serious misconduct and a loss of moral values. A mortar attack on a mosque in Koufa in central Iraq killed 40 people and injured another 70.
2005: Hurricane Katrina struck Florida’s Atlantic coast, causing flooding that claimed 11 lives. The massive storm then moved into the Gulf of Mexico where it picked up strength and sent thousands of Gulf Coast residents fleeing its expected onslaught. A Gallup Poll indicated U.S. President George W. Bush’s approval rating was 40 percent — the lowest Gallup rating of his presidency.
2006: Iran rebuffed the U.N. edict to stop its nuclear project or face sanctions and went ahead with expansion steps.
2007: The unofficial estimate of people killed in flooding in North Korea was placed at 600. Wildfires, all believed to be the act of arsonists, raged in Greece, fanned by gale force winds, killing at least 59 people and destroying thousands of acres of crops, pasture land and forests.
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2008: Median U.S. household income climbed 1.3 percent from 2006 to 2007, reaching $50,233 for a third consecutive increase, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. The report said the nation’s official poverty rate in 2007 was 12.5 percent — 37.3 million — about the same as a year earlier. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees recognizing the independence of two breakaway regions of Georgia. Medvedev said granting South Ossetia and Abkhazia independence was an act of necessity and urged other nations to make similar diplomatic moves.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. In continuing post-election violence in Afghanistan, a car bombing in Kandahar left 43 people dead and more than 65 injured.
2010: Toyota recalled 1.13 million vehicles involving possible engine-stalling problems in the 2005-08 Corolla sedan and Matrix hatchback, its 15th recall of the year.
2011: More than 200 decomposing bodies of men, women and children were found abandoned at a Libyan hospital where heavy fighting had raged nearby. Clashes between rebel forces and supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi prompted doctors and nurses to flee. Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan resigned after a hectic 15 months that included an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear disaster. He was succeeded three days later by Yoshihiko Noda, the finance minister.
Quotes
“The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.” – Alan Patrick Herbert
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” – Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French writer:
“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”
“‘Come to the edge,’ He said. They said, ‘We are afraid.’ ‘Come to the edge,’ He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew.”
“I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.”
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.”
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