Today in History (June 1st):
1637: Birthdays: Jacques Marquette, Jesuit priest and French explorer of the Mississippi.
1779: Continental Army Gen. Benedict Arnold was court-martialed.
1792: Kentucky joined the union as the 15th member of the United States.
1796: Tennessee joined the United States as the 16th state.
1801: Birthdays: Mormon leader Brigham Young.
1812: U.S. President James Madison warned Congress that war with Britain was imminent. The War of 1812 started 17 days later.
1880: The first public pay telephone began operation in New Haven, Conn.
1890: Birthdays: Actor Frank Morgan.
1921: Birthdays: Bandleader Nelson Riddle.
1926: Birthdays: Actor Marilyn Monroe; Actor Andy Griffith.
1930: Birthdays: Actor Edward Woodward.
1934: Birthdays: Singer Pat Boone.
1937: Birthdays: Novelist Colleen McCullough; Actor Morgan Freeman.
1939: Birthdays: Actor Cleavon Little.
1940: Birthdays: Actor Rene Auberjonois.
1945: Birthdays: Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Jonathan Pryce; Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of fame member Ron Wood, of the Faces and the Rolling Stones.
1953: Birthdays: Actor Diana Canova; Singer Ronnie Dunn.
1954: Linus of “Peanuts” was shown with his security blanket for the first time.
1956: Birthdays: Actor Lisa Hartman Black.
1961: Birthdays: Comedian/actor Mark Curry.
1964: The U.S. Supreme Court banned prayers and Bible teaching in public schools on the constitutional grounds of separation of church and state.
1968: Helen Keller, a world-renowned author and lecturer despite being blind and deaf from infancy, died in Westport, Conn., at the age of 87.
1973: Prime Minister George Papadopoulos abolished the Greek monarchy and proclaimed Greece a republic with himself as president. Birthdays: Supermodel Heidi Klum.
1974: Birthdays: Singer Alanis Morissette.
1980: The Cable News Network — CNN — TV’s first all-news service, went on the air.
1990: The South African government proposed a bill to scrap a 37-year-old law segregating buses, trains, toilets, libraries, swimming pools and other public amenities.
1993: President Jorge Serrano Elias of Guatemala was ousted by the military and President Dobrica Cosic of Yugoslavia was voted out of office by Parliament.
1997: French parliamentary elections brought parties of the left into power for the first time since 1986.
2000: Birthdays: Actor Willow Shields.
2001: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed several members of his family, including his father and mother, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya.
2004: The Iraq Governing Council chose Ghazi al-Yawer to be the country’s president as shells killed 15 people near Baghdad’s Green Zone, home of the U.S. Army command and Coalition Authority.
2005: Dutch voters joined France in overwhelmingly rejecting the proposed EU constitution.
2009: General Motors, the largest automaker in the United States, filed for bankruptcy and said it would close 14 plants. The federal government promised an additional $30.1 billion to keep the company operating. Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people onboard, officials said. Rescuers searched for five days before finding a trace of the wreckage off the northeast coast of Brazil. Mechanical failure was suspected.
2010: Yukio Hatoyama became Japan’s fourth prime minister to step down in less than four years after polls indicated low public support. He was succeeded by Naoto Kan, the former finance minister.
2011: U.S. government officials said Indiana’s new Iaw denying Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood was illegal.
2012: The U.S. Labor Department said the nation’s unemployment rate was 8.2 percent in May, up from 8.1 percent. About 69,000 jobs were added — the lowest number in a year.
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“It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.” – Ivan Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)
John Masefield (1878-1967) English writer:
“In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.”
“It is too maddening. I’ve got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I’ll have to speak three times, and then I’ll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?”
“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”
“I must go down to the sea again,
to the lonely sea and the sky;
and all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by.”
“One road leads to London,
One road runs to Wales,
My road leads me seawards
To the white dipping sails.”
hagiocracy
PRONUNCIATION: (HAG-ee-ok-ruh-kee, HAY-jee-)
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MEANING: noun: A government by holy persons. Also a place thus governed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hagio- (holy) + -cracy (rule). Two synonyms of this term are hagiarchy and hierocracy. Also, literally speaking, hierarchy is the rule of the high priest. Earliest documented use: 1846.
USAGE: “But money has assumed a more exalted place in the Fed’s hagiocracy in recent months.” – Alan Murray; Slow Money Growth Stirs Worry at Fed; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Jul 29, 1991.
philippic
PRONUNCIATION: (fi-LIP-ik)
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MEANING: (noun), A bitter condemnation, usually in a speech.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek philippikos, the name given to orator Demosthenes’s speeches urging Athenians to rise up against Philip II of Macedon.
USAGE: “John McCain sat in the elegant ballroom of the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich and listened politely as President Putin delivered a full-throated rant against America and all that it stood for. Mr McCain has long been one of Mr Putin’s most outspoken critics, but it was less a rush of anger that overwhelmed him as he listened to the Russian leader’s philippic, and more a mounting sense of irony.” – Gerard Baker; Support for War May Yet be the Undoing of John McCain; The Times (London, UK); Feb 15, 2007.
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trammel
PRONUNCIATION: (TRAM-uhl)
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MEANING:
(noun)
1. Something that limits or hinders.
2. A fishing net having three layers.
3. An instrument for drawing ellipses.
4. A shackle used in training a horse to amble.
5. An instrument for gauging and aligning parts of a machine.
6. A hook for hanging a pot or a kettle over a fire.
(verb tr.), To restrain; to hinder.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French tramail, from Latin tremaculum, from tres (three) + macula (mesh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three) that’s also the source of such words as three, testify (to be the third person: to bear witness), and triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13).
USAGE:
“John Singleton, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. spokesman, said [the ban on cigarette sales at Boston drugstores and on college campuses] does trammel on businesses’ right to sell what they want to sell.” – Stephen Smith; Hub Seeks More Bans on Tobacco; The Boston Globe; Sep 4, 2008.
“‘Lost in Showbiz asks what constitutes a crisis?’ Jonathan Blake continues, free of the trammels of punctuation.” – Marina Hyde; Our High Priest of Showbiz Offers Up Some Vehicle Specs; The Guardian (London, UK); Apr 27, 2009.