South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work
was an immediate hit on Broadway in 1949, running for 1,925 performances
and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot is based on several
stories in James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales
of the South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed that the musical
could be successful and send a strong progressive message on racism.
They wrote several of the songs with the particular talents of their
stars, Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin, in mind. Most of its songs became
popular, including "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man
Right Outa My Hair" (performance pictured). The original Broadway
production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical; its original
cast album was the bestselling record of the 1940s. The show has enjoyed
many successful revivals and tours, spawning a 1958 film and later
television adaptations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his St John Passion, a musical
setting of the Passion of Jesus, at Good Friday Vespers in St. Nicholas
Church, Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Passion>
1945:
World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato,
then the largest in the world, during Operation Ten-Go in the East China
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go>
1995:
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre
of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samashki_massacre>
2010:
Violent protests started in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in
response to perceived corruption and rising living expenses, eventually
resulting in the collapse of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_Revolution_of_2010>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chivvy:
1. (transitive, Britain) To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent
request.
2. (transitive, Britain) To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
3. (transitive, Britain) To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
4. (transitive, Britain) To pursue as in a hunt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chivvy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the
impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science …
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of
laws and customs, — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and
things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and
knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the
whole earth, and over all time … Poetry is the first and last of all
knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>
Operation Retribution was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade,
the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup
d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite
Pact. The bombing occurred in the first days of the invasion of
Yugoslavia by German-led Axis forces during World War II. The Royal
Yugoslav Army Air Force had only 77 modern fighter aircraft available to
defend Belgrade against the hundreds of German fighters and bombers that
struck in the first wave early on 6 April. Three days prior, Major
Vladimir Kren had defected to the Germans, elucidating the air force's
codes and disclosing the locations of military assets. Three more waves
of bombers attacked Belgrade on 6 April, and more attacks followed in
subsequent days. The attacks resulted in the paralysis of Yugoslav
civilian and military command and control, the widespread destruction of
Belgrade's infrastructure, and many civilian casualties.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Retribution_%281941%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
The first modern Olympic Games (official report cover shown)
opened in Athens, with 241 athletes from 14 nations participating in 43
events.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics>
1945:
Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville
Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th
Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Slater%27s_Knoll>
1970:
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a
shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_incident>
2010:
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist
Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy
in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Maoist_attack_in_Dantewada>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wieldy:
1. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) Able to wield one's body well;
active, dexterous.
2. Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wieldy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But
if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow. Lean on me, when
you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For
it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on.
--Bill Withers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Withers>
Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created
by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures
of a boy named Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada (pictured), and his best
friend Jake, a dog who can change shape and size at will, voiced by John
DiMaggio. In the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, they interact with
Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline
(Olivia Olson), and others. The series is based on a 2007 short for
Nicktoons and Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. Premiering April 5,
2010, and ending September 3, 2018, each 11-minute episode took roughly
8–9 months to complete using hand-drawn animation. Adventure Time was
a ratings success for Cartoon Network with up to three million viewers.
It has received positive reviews from critics and won eight Primetime
Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, and two British
Academy Children's Awards. Four Adventure Time specials will air on HBO
Max starting in 2020.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first
publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park>
1936:
During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history,
an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbr…>
1976:
The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime
triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the
Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Incident>
2000:
Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan
violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being
stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending
the second leg in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_semi-final_violence>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whelm:
1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to
cover it.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and
restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And
the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive
delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content
with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means
to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. And
from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their
endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws or abroad by wars; and,
when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire, in some of fame from
new conquest, in others of ease and sensual pleasure, in others of
admiration or being flattered for excellence in some art or other
ability of the mind.
--Thomas Hobbes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes>
When You Get a Little Lonely is a studio album by American actor and
singer Maureen McCormick (pictured), her only solo album, released on
April 4, 1995, through the label Phantom Hill. While playing Marcia
Brady in the sitcom The Brady Bunch in the 1970s, McCormick recorded
four albums with the cast and a duet album with her co-star Christopher
Knight. In 1994, she signed with her brother's record label and recorded
When You Get a Little Lonely in Nashville, Tennessee, and Hollywood,
California. McCormick selected the final track listing, fusing other
genres into the album's overall country sound. Barry Coffing was the
executive producer, and arranged and produced all the songs. The title
track and "Tell Mama" were released as singles. The album received
mainly negative reviews. Since its release, McCormick has continued to
perform country music and has appeared on the reality television show
Gone Country.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Get_a_Little_Lonely>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1721:
Robert Walpole (portrait shown) took office as First Lord of
the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of
Commons, becoming Britain's first de facto prime minister.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing
NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense
whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an
attack by any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1975:
Vietnam War: On a mission to evacuate children from South
Vietnam, a U.S. Air Force plane crash-landed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base,
killing 153.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_T%C3%A2n_S%C6%A1n_Nh%E1%BB%A9t_C-5_accid…>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a memorandum of
understanding, agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending
the 26-year-long Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sensical:
That makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sensical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
⨀ Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of
mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
--Baruch Spinoza
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>
The Rodrigues starling (Necropsar rodericanus) is an extinct species of
starling that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. Its
closest relatives were the Mauritius starling and the hoopoe starling
from nearby islands. The bird was reported by a French sailor Julien
Tafforet, who was marooned on the island from 1725 to 1726. He observed
it on the offshore islet of Île Gombrani. Subfossil remains (pictured)
from the mainland were described in 1879, and suggested to be of the
same species. Confusion about the bird and its taxonomic relations
persisted through the 20th century. This starling was 25–30
centimetres (10–12 inches) long, and had a stout beak. It was
described as having a white body, partially black wings and tail, and a
yellow bill and legs. Little is known about its behaviour, although its
diet included eggs and dead tortoises. Predation by rats introduced to
the area was probably responsible for the bird's extinction some time in
the 18th century, first on mainland Rodrigues, then on Île Gombrani.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues_starling>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
Emma Elizabeth Smith was killed in the first of eleven unsolved
murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel
district in the East End of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders>
1922:
Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin>
1948:
Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island,
eventually leading to the deaths of thousands of individuals and
atrocities committed by both sides, including the violent suppression of
the rebellion by South Korean forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising>
2000:
In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to
have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet
Explorer with its Windows operating system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
loggerhead:
1. (obsolete) A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.
2. A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made
hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a
liquid) to melt or heat it.
3. (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
4. (botany, Midlands, dialectal) Often in plural: a thistle-like
flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed
(Centaurea nigra).
5. (zoology) Used as the name of various animals with large heads.
6. The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus;
formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the
Falkland Islands.
7. The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to
the Caribbean and West Indies.
8. The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to
Jamaica.
9. The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North
America.
10. The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed
turtle endemic to the United States.
11. The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an
oceanic turtle found throughout the world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loggerhead>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
--Jane Goodall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall>
Hathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. As a sky deity,
she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra,
and the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs.
She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra's
feminine counterpart, and in this form she had a vengeful aspect that
protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side represented music,
dance, joy, love, sexuality and maternal care. These two aspects of the
goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. Hathor
crossed boundaries between worlds, helping deceased souls in the
transition to the afterlife. She was often depicted as a cow, although
her most common form was a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns and a
sun disk. More temples were dedicated to her than to any other goddess;
her most prominent temple was Dendera. She was one of the deities
commonly invoked in private prayers and votive offerings, particularly
by women desiring children.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: On the third attempt, Union forces captured
Petersburg, Virginia, although Confederate officials and most of their
remaining troops were able to escape.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Petersburg>
1973:
The Liberal Movement, a South Australian political party, was
established following a split from the Liberal and Country League.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Movement_%28Australia%29>
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
2002:
Operation Defensive Shield: Palestinian militants sought refuge
from advancing Israeli forces in the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem, beginning a month-long standoff.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_Church_of_the_Nativity_in_Bethle…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
imburse:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply
with money.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to
repay, to reimburse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imburse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we
were doing it.
--Kenneth Tynan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan>
Tirpitz was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi
Germany during World War II. The ship was laid down in November 1936 and
commissioned in February 1941. Tirpitz was armed with a main battery of
eight 38-centimetre (15 in) guns in four twin turrets. She was the
heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy. In early 1942, the
ship sailed to Norway to act as a fleet in being, forcing the British
navy to retain significant forces in the area. In September 1943,
Tirpitz, along with the battleship Scharnhorst, bombarded Allied
positions on Spitzbergen, the only time the ship's main battery was used
offensively. On 12 November 1944, British Lancaster bombers equipped
with 12,000-pound (5,400 kg) "Tallboys" bombed the ship, causing her to
capsize. A deck fire spread to an ammunition magazine causing a large
explosion. Between 1948 and 1957, the wreck was broken up in a salvage
operation. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of
Germany.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Battleships_of_Germ…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
The Duke of Buckingham formally opened the Brill Tramway
(locomotive pictured), a short railway line to transport goods between
his lands and the national rail network.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Tramway>
1918:
The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force was founded, towards the
end of the First World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force>
1970:
U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette
Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon
general be placed on cigarette packages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smoking_Act>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
couth:
1. (obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
2. (Scotland) Variant of couthie.
3. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
4. Comfortable; cosy, snug. […]
5. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured,
refined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man
looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute
accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because
of it.
--Anne McCaffrey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey>
The 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement is a bilateral treaty between
the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons co-
operation. It allows the two countries to exchange nuclear materials,
technology and information, and was signed on 3 July 1958, after the
British hydrogen bomb programme successfully tested a thermonuclear
device. While the US has nuclear co-operation agreements with other
countries, including France and other NATO countries, this agreement is
by far the most comprehensive. Exemplifying the Anglo-American Special
Relationship, it allowed American nuclear weapons to be supplied under
Project E. The treaty has proved mutually beneficial, and paved the way
for the Polaris Sales Agreement and the Trident nuclear programme
submarines, including HMS Victorious (pictured), all of which use
American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The most recent renewal
of the treaty extended it to 31 December 2024.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_US%E2%80%93UK_Mutual_Defence_Agreement>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
Arnold Schoenberg conducted the Vienna Concert Society in a
concert of expressionist music that so shocked the audience that they
began to riot (depicted).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandalkonzert>
1930:
To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios
instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly
known as the Hays Code.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code>
1970:
Nine Japanese communists armed with samurai swords and pipe
bombs hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 en route from Tokyo to Fukuoka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_351>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
verklempt:
1. (US, colloquial) Overcome with emotion, choked up.
2. (US, colloquial) Flustered, nervous, overwhelmed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verklempt>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the
Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the
basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the
system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the
system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we
will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the
injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we
have been. They have imposed hunger on us, and now we hunger for
justice. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have
been forced to live. We shall endure.
--Cesar Chavez
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez>
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American
Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown
winner in 25 years. Secretariat set speed records in all three Triple
Crown races. His time of 1:592⁄5 in the Kentucky Derby still stands
as the Churchill Downs track record for 1 1⁄4 miles. His disputed
time in the Preakness Stakes was recognized as a stakes record in 2012.
He won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, setting an American record for
1 1⁄2 miles on dirt that still stands. He also set a world record
in the Marlboro Cup, and proved his versatility by winning two major
stakes races on turf. His 1972–1973 racing career resulted in five
Eclipse Awards, including American Horse of the Year honors both years.
Of The Blood-Horse's Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century,
Secretariat ranks second only to Man o' War. After siring several major
stakes winners, Secretariat died at age 19 of complications from
laminitis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretariat_%28horse%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the
purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase>
1950:
Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as
the first Indonesian film.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darah_dan_Doa>
1972:
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive
in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many South
Vietnamese units as possible.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Offensive>
1981:
Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John
Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three
others outside the Washington Hilton hotel (immediate aftermath
pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pseudopatient:
1. (dated) A person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some
benefit.
2. (medicine) A person who poses as a patient so that research may be
conducted or staff trained.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudopatient>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty.
There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man
makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
--Seán O'Casey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_O%27Casey>
Francis Willughby (1635–1672) was an English ornithologist and
ichthyologist, and an early student of linguistics and games. At Trinity
College, Cambridge, he was tutored by the mathematician and naturalist
John Ray, who became a lifetime friend and colleague. Willughby, Ray,
and others including John Wilkins were advocates of a new way of
studying science, relying on observation and classification, rather than
the received authority of Aristotle and the Bible. Willughby and Ray
undertook journeys to gather information and specimens in England,
Wales, and continental Europe, visiting museums, libraries and private
collections as well as studying local animals and plants. After
Willughby's early death, Ray completed the works they had jointly
planned, publishing books on birds, fish and invertebrates that included
innovative ways of classifying animals. Carl Linnaeus relied on
Willughby and Ray's books in his Systema Naturae, the basis of binomial
nomenclature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Willughby>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
The M1911 pistol, developed by American firearms designer John
Browning, became the standard-issue sidearm in the United States Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol>
1982:
Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982,
which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the
United Kingdom by a process known as "patriation".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Act_1982>
2010:
Islamist Chechen separatists detonated two bombs on the Moscow
Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Moscow_Metro_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chaotic:
1. Filled with chaos.
2. Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
3. (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a
small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
4. (role-playing games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and
principles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chaotic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but
rather ones who speak for it and support it.
--Eugene McCarthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy>