Today in History (September 5th):
1638: Birthdays: French King Louis XIV;
1774: The first Continental Congress convened in secret in Philadelphia.
1846: Birthdays: Distiller Jack Daniel;
1847: Birthdays: Outlaw Jesse James;
1874: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Napoleon Lajoie;
1877: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guard house at Fort Robinson, Neb. A year earlier, Crazy Horse was among the Sioux leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory.
1882: 10,000 workers marched in the first Labor Day parade in New York City.
1897: Birthdays: Marketing research engineer A.C. Nielsen;
1902: Birthdays: Movie producer Darryl F. Zanuck;
1905: Birthdays: Hungarian-born author Arthur Koestler;
1927: Birthdays: Retired Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker;
1929: Birthdays: Comedian Bob Newhart;
1932: Birthdays: Singer/actor Carol Lawrence;
1935: Singing cowboy Gene Autry starred in his first Western feature Tumbling Tumbleweeds.
1937: Birthdays: Actor William Devane;
1939: Birthdays: Actor George Lazenby;
1940: Birthdays: Actor Raquel Welch;
1942: Birthdays: Film director Werner Herzog;
1945: Birthdays: Singer/songwriter Al Stewart;
1946: Birthdays: Singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III; British rock singer Freddie Mercury; Birthdays: Actor Dennis Dugan;
1950: Birthdays: Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite;
1951: Birthdays: Actor Michael Keaton;
1969: Birthdays: Rock musician Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa.
1972: Palestinian militants invaded the Olympic Village outside Munich, West Germany, and killed 11 Israeli athletes and six other people.
1975: Lynette Squeaky Fromme, a follower of mass murderer Charles Manson, failed in an attempt to shoot U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and U.S. President Jimmy Carter began a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Md.
1991: Six BCCI officials and a Medellin drug cartel leader were charged with laundering cocaine profits through the bank from 1983-89.
1995: France conducted an underground nuclear test at the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. It was the first of several — all of which were met by protests worldwide.
1997: At least 172 people were killed in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long, though sporadically fought civil war. In an unusual television speech, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth acknowledged the public expression of grief over Princess Diana’s death and expressed her own admiration for her former daughter-in-law. Deaths: Mother Teresa (age 87).
2001: Mexican President Vicente Fox traveled to Washington to ask the Bush administration for a U.S. agreement to legalize the status of millions of Mexicans who entered the United States illegally.
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2005: U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would nominate U.S. Circuit Judge John Roberts to succeed William Rehnquist as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. An Indonesian Boeing 737-200 plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the suburbs of the Sumatran city of Medan killing at least 147 people, including 30 on the ground. Six people in the rear of the plane escaped with minor injuries.
2006: Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was declared winner of the Mexican presidency by a razor-thin margin. Katie Couric, long-time co-host of the NBC Today Show, became the first solo female anchor on a major U.S. television network when she took over the CBS Evening News.
2007: Wealthy, record-setting U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished on a short flight in western Nevada. He was declared dead five months later. Among his many records in the skies and on the water, he was the first person to fly around the world solo in a balloon and first to fly around the globe solo without refueling.
2008: The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 6.1 percent in August, highest point in five years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Some 84,000 people lost jobs in August. Tropical Storm Hanna struck the Haitian port city of Gonalves, killing at least 500 people. In Angola’s first elections in 16 years, the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola won about 82 percent of the legislative vote.
2009: At least 15 people died when a tourist boat sank in southwest Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid, with about 60 others rescued. Overloading was seen as a possible cause.
2010: Heavy rains that triggered massive mudslides were blamed for at least 44 deaths in Guatemala, including 12 people killed when a landslide struck their bus on the Pan-American Highway. An alleged terror network aimed at toppling the Bahrain government was uncovered with the arrest of 23 people.
2011: A U.N. report said 750,000 Somalis were at risk of dying of starvation by the end of the year. Severe drought was a major threat throughout much of East Africa but Somalia’s plight was magnified by its civil war. Iran’s first nuclear power plant was connected to the national power grid with an official kickoff due Sept. 12. The Bushehr plant, under development for three decades, could pave the way for the Middle East’s first atomic power plant, reports said.
Quotes
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” – Norman Douglas
“We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.” -Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, and playwright (1912-1990)
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) Hungarian writer:
“A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.”
“Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
“If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler’s eye, determine the direction of the journey.”
“If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surelymeant us to stick it out.”
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”
“Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.”
“Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.”
“Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.”
“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won’t triumph over his fate.”
winner’s circle
PRONUNCIATION: (WIN-uhrz SUHR-kuhl)
http://wordsmith.org/words/winners_circle.mp3
MEANING: noun: A select group of winners or those considered worthy.
ETYMOLOGY: After the enclosure at a racetrack where the winning horse, jockey, and horse-owner receive awards. Earliest documented use: 1951.
USAGE: “I’m not sure being Peter’s fifth fiancée will put you in the winner’s circle.” – Jennifer Drew; The Bad Girl Bride; Mills and Boon; 1999.