Today in History (January 15th):
1622: Birthdays: French playwright Moliere (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin).
1716: Birthdays: Signer of the Declaration of Independence Philip Livingston.
1759: The British Museum opened.
1844: Birthdays: Outlaw Cole Younger.
1866: Birthdays: Swedish clergyman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nathan Soderblom.
1870: A cartoon by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper’s weekly with a donkey symbolizing the Democratic Party for the first time.
1892: Dr. James Naismith published the rules of basketball. He invented the game at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass.
1906: Birthdays: Greek businessman Aristotle Onassis.
1908: Birthdays: Nuclear physicist Edward Teller.
1909: Birthdays: Drummer Gene Krupa.
1913: Birthdays: Actor Lloyd Bridges.
1918: Birthdays: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1919: 21 people were killed and scores injured when a vat holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses exploded and sent torrents of molasses into the streets of Boston. The event is known as the Boston Molasses Disaster.
1922: The Irish Free State was formed.
1929: Birthdays: Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr.
1937: Birthdays: Actor Margaret O’Brien.
1943: The Pentagon, the world’s largest building of its kind, was completed on the Virginia side of the Potomac River just outside Washington.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Andrea Martin.
1948: Birthdays: Rock ‘n roll Hall of Fame member Ronnie Van Zant.
1957: Birthdays: Actor Mario Van Peebles.
1967: The first Super Bowl, pitting the NFL and AFL champions, was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1968: Birthdays: Actor Chad Lowe.
1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon called a halt to U.S. military offensives in Vietnam.
1979: Birthdays: Pro football quarterback Drew Brees.
1986: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a sweeping arms control plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and rid mankind of the fear of nuclear catastrophe.
1993: Four-time Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn, who wrote such hits as Fly Me to the Moon and Three Coins in the Fountain, died of heart failure at age 79.
1997: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reached an agreement on the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron.
1999: Serb forces killed 45 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo.
2002: John Walker Lindh, a 20-year-old American seized with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December, was charged with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and abetting terrorist groups.
2006: In a runoff, Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first female president.
2008: Meat and milk from cloned animals were ruled safe for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after years of debate. Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank, reported a fourth quarter loss of $9.83 billion. An Israeli Gaza strike killed as many as 20 Palestinians, including several Hamas fighters, in retaliation to the firing of rockets and mortar bombs into southern Israel.
2009: All 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot Chesley Sully Sullenberger gently landed his disabled aircraft in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. The U.S. Senate voted to release the second half of the federal bailout money, $350 million, to aid President-elect Barack Obama’s economic plan.
2011: Voters in southern Sudan overwhelmingly approved a referendum to secede from Sudan and become an independent African nation. At least 104 people were killed when a runaway vehicle triggered a stampede at a pilgrimage center in southwestern India.
2012: A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman targeted Shiite pilgrims outside the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least 53 people and wounding 137. Thousands of protesters sought the ouster of Romanian President Traian Basescu and early elections in demonstrations in the main square of Bucharest and 18 other cities.
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– John Milton (Paradise Lost)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US Civil Rights Leader:
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
“A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.”
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.”
bacchanalia
PRONUNCIATION: (bak-uh-NAIL-yuh)
MEANING: (noun)
1. (plural, capitalized) The ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry.
2. A riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity; a revel.
ETYMOLOGY: Bacchanalia comes from Latin, from Bacchus, god of wine, from Greek Bakkhos. The adjective form is bacchanalian. One who celebrates the Bacchanalia, or indulges in drunken revels, is a bacchanal \\BAK-uh-nuhl; bak-uh-NAL\\, which is also another term for a drunken or riotous celebration.
USAGE: “The bacchanalia which celebrated Neil’s graduation was such to shake the pillars of heaven, or at least enough to be heard across the street, which is why the police were called.”
seminal
PRONUNCIATION: (SEM-uh-nuhl)
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MEANING: (adjective)
1. Highly original and proving influential on later work.
2. Of or relating to semen or seed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin semen (seed). Ultimately from the Indo-European root se- (to sow) which also gave us seed, sow, season, seminary, and disseminate. Earliest documented use: 1398.
USAGE: “It was in 1962 that Rachel Carson published the seminal book of the environmental movement, Silent Spring.” – What’s New at the A.K. Smiley Public Library; Redlands Daily Facts (California); Dec 29, 2012.
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sagacity
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-GAS-i-tee)
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MEANING: noun: Keen judgment or wisdom.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sagacitas (wisdom), from sagire (to perceive keenly). Ultimatelyfrom the Indo-European root sag- (to seek out), which is also the source ofseek, ransack, ramshackle, forsake, and hegemony.Earliest documented use: 1607.
USAGE: “In a moment of odd sagacity, Sarah Palin lamented that the contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination had become just another reality television show.” – Donald Mitchell; Palin Pulls a Palin; Los Angeles Times; Oct 9, 2011.