Hobey Baker (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early
twentieth century, widely regarded by his contemporaries as one of the
best athletes of his time. He excelled at ice hockey and football at
Princeton University, where he was a member of three national
championship teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the St.
Nicholas Club in New York City, helping the club win a national amateur
championship. Baker graduated in 1914 and worked for J.P. Morgan Bank
until he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service. During World War I he
served with the 103rd and 13th Aero Squadrons before being promoted to
captain and named commander of the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in
December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before
he was due to return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey
arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. He was one of the first nine
inductees in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 and was also inducted into
the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, making him the only person to
be in both Halls of Fame. The Hobey Baker Award is presented annually to
the best collegiate hockey player in the United States.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobey_Baker>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence from
several jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of New
Hampshire and New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic>
1885:
American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known
photograph of a snowflake (example pictured) by attaching a bellows
camera to a microscope.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley>
1937:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both
withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the
Corunna Road.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Corunna_Road>
1975:
Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, and
the FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_War_of_Independence>
1981:
Hill Street Blues, one of American television's most critically
acclaimed shows, aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Station>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
floccinaucinihilipilificate:
(colloquial) To describe or regard something as worthless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilificate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality?
I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and
to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written
in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and without fear; tell
that which thou knowest.
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon>