Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979) is a professional ice hockey
goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Hockey Team, where he won his
second Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price. He
employs the butterfly style of goaltending and has previously played in
the NHL for the New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is
a two-time NHL Second All-Star (2004 and 2007) and a winner of the
William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest
goals-against average in the league (2011). He has been a finalist for
the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007 and 2011),
the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004
and 2007) and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable
player (2007). Luongo is second all-time in games played as an NHL
goaltender, and is third all-time in wins.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Luongo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die
in office, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of
presidential succession that were left unanswered by the U.S.
Constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating 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>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty,
agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long
Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
2013:
A building collapsed on tribal land in Mumbra, a suburb of
Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Thane_building_collapse>
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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:
Freedom is inseparable from conscience. And even if it is true
that all the ideas developed by the social consciousness are the product
of evolution, conscience at least has nothing to do with the historic
process. Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a priori
immanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has
emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation.
--Andrei Tarkovsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky>