Today in History (July 6th):
1699: Pirate Capt. William Kidd was seized in Boston and deported to England where he was hanged.
1747: Birthdays: John Paul Jones, founder of the U.S. Navy.
1785: The dollar was unanimously chosen as the official currency of the United States.
1854: The Republican Party was formally established at a meeting in New York City.
1885: French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur inoculated the first human being, a boy, who had been bitten by a rabid dog. The youngster didn’t develop rabies.
1907: Birthdays: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
1911: Birthdays: Singer LaVerne Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters.
1918: Birthdays: British actor Sebastian Cabot.
1919: A British dirigible landed at New York’s Roosevelt Field to complete the first airship crossing of the Atlantic.
1921: Birthdays: Former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan.
1923: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1925: Birthdays: TV entertainer-producer Merv Griffin; Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Bill Haley (Rock Around The Clock).
1927: Birthdays: Actor Janet Leigh.
1931: Birthdays: Singer/actor Della Reese.
1933: The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.
1935: Birthdays: The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
1937: Birthdays: Actor Ned Beatty.
1942: Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge in a secret section of an Amsterdam warehouse where they hid from the Nazis for two years. Finally discovered, they were sent to concentration camps where Anne died.
1944: Fire in the big top of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed 167 people, two-thirds of them children, and injured 682 others.
1945: Birthdays: Actor Burt Ward.
1946: Birthdays: Actor Sylvester Stallone; Former U.S. President George W. Bush.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Shelley Hack.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Geoffrey Rush.
1953: Birthdays: Singer Nanci Griffith.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Allyce Beasley.
1957: Althea Gibson became the first black athlete to win a Wimbledon championship. While attending a church picnic near Liverpool, 15-year-old Paul McCartney met 16-year-old John Lennon. Lennon’s band was playing at the picnic and by the end of the day McCartney had joined the group.
1958: Alaska became the 49th U.S. state.
1967: Civil war broke out in Nigeria.
1971: Louis Satchmo Armstrong, one of the 20th century’s most influential American musicians, died at age 69.
1975: Birthdays: Rapper 50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III.
1976: Women were first admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. The other military academies soon followed suit.
1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a TV interview, said it was a probability that many young people now paying into Social Security will never be able to receive as much as they’re paying.
1997: The Mars Pathfinder deployed the remote-controlled Sojourner to explore the surface of Mars.
1999: U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton announced she was forming a committee to look into running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y.
2004: U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, chose Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., as his running mate.
2005: London was chosen as the site of the 2012 Olympic Games in a close decision over Paris.
2006: Felipe Calderon of Mexico’s ruling National Action Party won a tight race for president over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Quotes
“A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.” – Ambrose Bierce
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.” – Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 1949)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican artist:
“I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
“Painting completed my life.”
“The most interesting thing about the so-called lies of Diego is that, sooner or later, the ones involved in the imaginary tale get angry, not because of the lies, but because of the truth contained in the lies, which always comes forth.”
“I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.”
monomania
PRONUNCIATION: (mon-uh-MAY-nee-uh; -nyuh)
MEANING: (noun)
1. Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
2. Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.
USAGE: “Jenn’s monomania regarding the popular television program was such that all other activities, including work, were shoved aside once the new season began.”
epigraph
PRONUNCIATION: (EP-i-graf)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. An inscription on a building or statue.
2. A quotation introducing a book or a chapter.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek epi- (on, upon) + -graph (writing).
USAGE: “A Counterfeit Silence includes an epigraph from Thornton Wilder: ‘Even speech was for them a debased form of silence.'” – William Grono and Dennis Haskell; Solitary Writer Randolph Stow Chose Silence; The Australian (Sydney); Jun 1, 2010.
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limnology
PRONUNCIATION: (lim-NOL-uh-jee)
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MEANING: (noun), The study of bodies of fresh water, such as lakes and ponds.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek limne (lake) + -logy (study). Limnophilous, the word to describe an organism living in lakes, pools, etc., has four consecutive letters from the alphabet.
USAGE: “Retired professor and head of the department of limnology, Dr VJ Druve, pointed out that the state is abundant in water resources with high potential for inland fish production.” – PJ Joychen; Udaipur Fisheries College Crying For Attention; The Times of India (New Delhi); Jun 16, 2008.