Franklin Knight Lane (1864–1921) was an American Democratic politician
from California who served as United States Secretary of the Interior
from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for governor of
California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily
Republican state. Lane was born July 15, 1864, near Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, in what was then a British colony but is now part
of Canada, and in 1871, his family moved to California. Elected City
Attorney of San Francisco in 1898, a post he held for five years, Lane
ran in 1902 for governor and in 1903 for mayor of San Francisco, losing
both races. In 1903, he received the support of the Democratic minority
in the California State Legislature during the legislature's vote to
elect a United States Senator from California. It was often said of
Lane that had he not been born in what is now Canada, he would have
become president. In spite of that limitation, Lane was offered support
for the Democratic nomination for Vice President, though he was
constitutionally ineligible for that office as well.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1757:
Seven Years' War: Prussian forces led by Frederick the Great defeated
the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman/Austrian Empire at the
Battle of Rossbach.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rossbach>
1838:
The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with
Nicaragua seceding from the union.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_America>
1854:
Crimean War: Despite being severely outnumbered, and fighting in heavy
foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France
defeated the Russians in present-day Inkerman, Ukraine.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inkerman>
1913:
King Otto of Bavaria was deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig,
who assumed the title Ludwig III of Bavaria.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_III_of_Bavaria>
1917:
St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikhon_of_Moscow>
2007:
Chang'e 1 , the first unmanned spacecraft of the China National Space
Administration's Lunar Exploration Program, entered into lunar orbit.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
klatch (n):
An informal social gathering, especially for the purpose of
conversation
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four
stages:
(i) this is worthless nonsense;
(ii) this is an interesting, but
perverse, point of view;
(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
(iv) I always said so.
--J. B. S. Haldane
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