Today in History (July 2nd):
1788: It was announced in the U.S. Congress that the new Constitution had been ratified by the required nine states, the ninth being New Hampshire.
1839: African slaves being shipped to Cuba revolted and seized the ship Amistad, leading to an eventual end of the African slave market.
1877: Birthdays: German novelist Hermann Hesse.
1881: U.S. President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a mentally disturbed office-seeker. Garfield died Sept. 19 and was succeeded by Vice President Chester Arthur.
1900: The world’s first rigid airship was demonstrated on Lake Constance in Germany by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin.
1903: Birthdays: King Olav V of Norway.
1904: Birthdays: Tennis champion Rene Lacoste.
1908: Birthdays: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
1916: Birthdays: Singer/actor Ken Curtis (Gunsmoke’s Festus).
1917: Up to 75 African-Americans were killed in rioting in St. Louis.
1925: Birthdays: Civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
1929: Birthdays: Imelda Marcos, wife of former Philippine President Fernando Marcos.
1932: Birthdays: Dave Thomas, Wendy’s fast-food restaurant chain founder.
1934: 6-year-old Shirley Temple signed a contract with Fox Film Corp. and went on to become one of the biggest movie stars of the era.
1937: U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan were reported lost over the Pacific Ocean. They were never found. Birthdays: Actor Polly Holliday; Former race car driver Richard Petty.
1946: Birthdays: Actor/director Ron Silver.
1947: Birthdays: Writer/actor Larry David.
1961: Birthdays: Actor Jimmy McNichol.
1962: The first Walmart store opened in Rogers, Ark.
1964: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Birthdays: Former baseball star Jose Canseco, first to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same major league season.
1976: North and South Vietnam reunited, forming the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1986: The U.S. Supreme Court endorsed numerical hiring goals for minorities, rejecting the Reagan administration view that affirmative action be limited to proven victims of race discrimination. Birthdays: Actor Lindsay Lohan.
1990: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel at the Muslim holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj killed 1,426 pilgrims.
1993: South African President F.W de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela announced that the country’s first election open to all races would be April 27, 1994.
1994: The Colombian soccer player who inadvertently scored a goal for the United States, contributing to his team’s loss in World Cup competition, was shot to death in Medellin, Colombia.
2000: Vicente Fox was elected president of Mexico.
2002: American Steve Fossett completed a round-the-world solo flight in a balloon, reaching Queensland in the Australian outback to finish a 13-day, 19,428-mile trip that began in Western Australia.
2004: Medical reports said post-traumatic stress disorder was appearing in 1-in-6 U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq.
2007: U.S. President George W. Bush commuted the 30-month prison sentence of Lewis Scooter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was convicted of obstructing a federal investigation into who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent.
2009: India’s ban on homosexuality, in effect since 1861, was overturned by New Delhi’s highest court.
2012: Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president-elect, pledged to fight drug trafficking and violence.
Quotes
“Appearances are often deceiving.” – Aesop’s Fables
“Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)
“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
“Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.” – Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
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Hermann Hesse (1887-1962) German writer:
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.”
perdurable
PRONUNCIATION: (pur-DUR-uh-bul; pur-DYUR-)
MEANING: (adjective), Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
ETYMOLOGY: Perdurable ultimately comes from Late Latin perdurabilis, from Latin perdurare, to last a long time, to endure, from per-, throughout + durare, to last.
USAGE: “A mother’s perdurable love for her child is often tested during the teen years.”
hobbledehoy
PRONUNCIATION: (HOB-uhl-dee-hoy)
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MEANING: (noun), An awkward young fellow.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1540.
USAGE: “Burleigh’s breathless accounts of the many figures of the British peerage in the story read as though written by some overawed hobbledehoy, someone who fingers the noblemen’s lamé draperies in envious amazement and wonders how much they would go for at Wal-Mart.” – Simon Winchester; ‘The Nation’s Attic’; The Boston Globe; Jan 11, 2004.
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logomachy
PRONUNCIATION: (luh-GOM-uh-kee)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. A dispute about words.
2. A battle fought with words.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek logo- (word) + -machy (battle). Earliest documented use: 1569.
USAGE: “Raymond Queneau’s most attractive books are founded on a logomachyin which fine words are pitted against the not so fine.” – John Sturrock; The Word From Paris; Verso; 1998.
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dibs
PRONUNCIATION: (dibz)
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MEANING: (noun), The right or claim on something.
ETYMOLOGY: From shortening of dibstones, a children’s game played with pebbles.
USAGE:
“Carly: I’ve got dibs on ‘Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina’. Syesha: No way, girl. That’s my song.” – Donald Munro; What A Tangled ‘Idol’ We Weave; Fresno Bee (California); Apr 20, 2008.
“Department officers were given first dibs for the job.” – Michael Tucker; Town Approves Hengel; Belgrade News (Montana); Jun 19, 2009.