Today in History (September 3rd):
1777: The U.S. flag was flown in battle for the first time, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge, Del.
1783: The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the American Revolutionary War and recognizing U.S. independence from Britain.
1803: Birthdays: Teacher Prudence Crandall, controversial for her efforts to educate black girls;
1856: Birthdays: Architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of the skyscraper;
1875: Birthdays: Automobile designer Ferdinand Porsche;
1913: Birthdays: Actor Alan Ladd;
1910: Birthdays: Actor/singer Kitty Carlisle;
1916: The Allies turned back the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.
1923: Birthdays: Cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey);
1931: Birthdays: Albert DeSalvo, known as the Boston Strangler;
1942: Birthdays: Musician Al Jardine of the Beach Boys;
1926: Birthdays: Actor Anne Jackson;
1932: Birthdays: Actor Eileen Brennan;
1936: Britain’s Malcolm Campbell set a land-speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, averaging 301.129 mph in two runs.
1939: Britain declared war on Germany and was quickly joined by France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
1940: Birthdays: Actor Pauline Collins;
1942: Frank Sinatra began his solo singing career after leaving Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra.
1943: Birthdays: Actor Valerie Perrine;
1965: Birthdays: Actor Charlie Sheen;
1986: Birthdays: Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White.
1991: Deaths: Film director Frank Capra, best known for such feel-good movies as It Happened One Night and It’s A Wonderful Life.
1992: An Italian plane carrying eight people and nearly 10,000 pounds of blankets for Bosnian war victims crashed en route to Sarajevo. Evidence suggested it was shot down.
1997: Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of fraud by a federal jury in Phoenix and resigned two days later, becoming the third U.S. governor in recent years to quit because of a criminal conviction.
2001: The United States and Israel walked out of the U.N. conference on racism in Durban, South Africa.
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2004: The 3-day Russian school crisis ended in a bloody 13-hour battle when security forces stormed the Beslan school building after Chechen terrorists opened fire on hostages. At least 350 people, including about 155 children, were killed. All but one of the 31 suspected hostage-takers also died.
2005: Deaths: William H. Rehnquist, the chief justice of the United States, died at the age of 80 after a long bout with thyroid cancer. He had been on the Supreme Court since 1971.
2008: U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona was officially nominated as the Republican presidential candidate at the national GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, the first Republican woman candidate for such a high office. In what was reported to be their first acknowledged ground attack on Pakistani soil, U.S. military forces raided a village near the Afghanistan border said to be home to al-Qaida militants.
2009: Authorities reported evidence indicating that the largest brushfire in Los Angeles County history had been deliberately set. Two firefighters were killed and close to 150,000 acres were scorched in the $43.5 million blaze. The United States said it had cut off all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras to try to pressure the de facto government into reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
2010: The U.S. unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent as the government reported a loss of 54,000 jobs in August.
2011: People took to the streets in Israel to protest growing social and economical inequality and the rising cost of living. The rally drew a reported half-million people in Tel Aviv and smaller crowds in Jerusalem, Haifa and half a dozen other cities.
2012: Deaths: Actor Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile, Daredevil, Sin City, Green Lantern);
Quotes
“Form ever follows function.” – Louis Sullivan
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) US writer:
“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.”
“Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.”
“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper – whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”
“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.”
“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.”
god’s penny
PRONUNCIATION: (godz PEN-ee)
http://wordsmith.org/words/gods_penny.mp3
MEANING: noun: Earnest money: a small sum given to show commitment and to bind a contract in a purchase, with the remaining amount due later.
ETYMOLOGY: From the earlier belief that some of the earnest money should be devoted to some religious purpose. Earliest documented use: 1340.
USAGE: “The exchange of God’s penny was the common seal of a deal.” – N.S.B. Graf; Business and Capitalism; Beard Books; 2003.