Joseph B. Foraker (1846–1917) was the 37th Governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and a Republican United States Senator from 1897 until 1909. Born in rural Ohio in 1846, Foraker enlisted at age 16 in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a member of Cornell University's first graduating class, and became a lawyer. Interesting himself in politics, he was elected a judge in 1879 and became well known as a political speaker. Although defeated in his first run for governor in 1883, he was elected two years later. Foraker lost re- election in 1889, but was elected senator by the Ohio General Assembly in 1896. In the Senate, he supported the Spanish-American War and the annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico. He differed with President Theodore Roosevelt over railroad regulation and political patronage. They also disagreed over the Brownsville Affair, in which black soldiers had been accused of terrorizing a Texas town, and Roosevelt had dismissed the entire battalion. Foraker fought unsuccessfully for the soldiers' reinstatement, and Roosevelt then helped defeat Foraker's re-election bid. In 1972, the Army reversed the dismissals and cleared the soldiers.
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1282:
Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Vespers
1822:
The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Territory
1918:
Bolshevik and Dashnak forces suppressed a Muslim revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting up to 30,000 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Days
1940:
Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei
1950:
Usmar Ismail began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darah_dan_Doa
1964:
Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!
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eat crow: (chiefly US, idiomatic) To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_crow
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