Today in History (July 17th)
1674: Birthdays: English clergyman and author Isaac Watts.
1763: Birthdays: Financier John Jacob Astor.
1816: The Klondike gold rush began.
1889: Birthdays: Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner.
1899: Birthdays: Actor James Cagney.
1912: Birthdays: TV personality Art Linkletter.
1917: Birthdays: Comedian Phyllis Diller.
1920: Birthdays: Olympics movement official Juan Antonio Samaranch.
1935: Birthdays: Actor Donald Sutherland; Actor Diahann Carroll; Musician Peter Schickele.
1936: The Spanish Civil War began with an army revolt led by Gen. Francisco Franco.
1938: Douglas Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York for a return flight to California but lost his bearings in the clouds, he said, and flew instead to Ireland. He became an instant celebrity called Wrong Way Corrigan.
1939: Birthdays: Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei; Rock musician Spencer Davis.
1942: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Connie Hawkins.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Lucie Arnaz.
1952: Birthdays: Actor David Hasselhoff; Singer Nicolette Larson; Singer Phoebe Snow.
1954: Birthdays: German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
1955: Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy. Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
1975: Three U.S. and two Soviet spacemen linked their orbiting Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft for historic handshakes 140 miles above Earth.
1981: 114 people were killed and 200 injured in the collapse of two suspended walkways at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
1996: TWA Flight 800, New York to Paris, crashed off the Long Island coast, killing all 230 people aboard.
1998: Bill Clinton became the first sitting U.S. president to be subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury as independent counsel Kenneth Starr continued his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair.
2006: An earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java, killing about 700 people. Around 200 were reported missing and thousands were rendered homeless.
2007: A Brazilian airliner skidded off a runway as it landed at San Paulo’s Congonhas Airport and crashed into a building. Authorities placed the death toll at 200.
2008: Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told a congressional committee he doesn’t believe waterboarding is torture. Ashcroft said he thinks a report on the simulated drowning procedure would be serious but not torture.
2009: Walter Cronkite, renowned television news broadcaster often referred to as the most trusted man in America, died at age 92.
2011: The phone hacking and alleged bribery scandal that toppled Rupert Murdoch’s popular British tabloid News of the World reached out in all directions, embarrassing the British government, forcing the head of Scotland Yard to resign, implicating several present and former Murdoch executives and fanning conspiracy theories when a reporter who helped blow the whistle on the situation was found dead.
2012: The Boy Scouts of America announced a policy of banning homosexuals from membership would remain in effect.
Quotes
“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.” – Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)
“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.” – Elizabeth Taylor
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generation.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.” – Mark Twain
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Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) US writer:
“Changing husbands is only changing troubles.”
“Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.”
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent.”
“Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.”
“None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.”
“There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.”
“When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?”
supine
PRONUNCIATION: (soo-PYN; SOO-pyn)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward.
2. Indolent; listless; inactive; mentally or morally lethargic.
USAGE: “Gerald had been in his bedroom maintaining a supine position while playing video games for no less than two days, breaking only for food and the necessary room.”
cloaca
PRONUNCIATION: (klo-AY-kuh) plural cloacae (klo-AY-se, -kee)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. An outhouse.
2. A sewer.
3. The common duct into which intestinal, urinary, and genital tracts open in birds, reptiles, most fishes, and some mammals.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cloaca (sewer, canal), from cluere (to cleanse). Earliest documented use: 1656.
USAGE:
“David Walsh has found that cloaca happens. Having spent $180 million establishing Museum of Old and New Art, the most famous exhibit being Cloaca, a complicated poo-producing machine, Mr Walsh is now involved in a legal stoush* with the Australian Tax Office.” – MONA founder in Tax Office sights; The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Jun 7, 2012.
* fight
“Anne had balked at hanging her mistress’s most beautiful clothes in the cloaca … because of the smell.” – Posie Graeme-Evans; The Anne Trilogy; Atria; 2002.
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fisc
PRONUNCIATION: (fisk)
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MEANING: (noun), A state treasury; exchequer.
ETYMOLOGY: From French fisc (tax office), from Latin fiscus (treasury, purse). Earliest documented use: 1598.
USAGE: “Houses of worship are free to open schools, but they are expected to pay for them with privately raised funds. None are given access to the public fisc.” – Rob Boston; Amendment Anxiety; Church & State (Washington, DC); Feb 2012.
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