The 1880 Democratic National Convention met June 22–24, 1880, at the Music Hall (pictured) in Cincinnati, Ohio, nominating Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania for president and William H. English of Indiana for vice president. Six men were officially candidates for nomination at the convention, and several more received votes. The two leading candidates were Hancock and Thomas F. Bayard, a conservative senator from Delaware. Many Democrats believed that Samuel J. Tilden of New York had been unjustly deprived of the presidency in 1876 and hoped to rally around him in the 1880 campaign, but his intentions were unclear. The first round of balloting was inconclusive. After learning of Tilden's withdrawal before the second round of balloting, the delegates flocked to Hancock, a career soldier and Civil War hero, who was nominated. English, a conservative from a swing state, was nominated for vice president. Hancock and English were narrowly defeated by Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur that autumn.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
306:
Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great
1814:
War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy%27s_Lane
1893:
The Corinth Canal, which bisects the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, was formally opened, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth_Canal
1978:
Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed in a police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Maravilla_murders
2000:
Air France Concorde Flight 4590, en route from Paris to New York City, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members, as well as four people on the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
shindig: A noisy party or festivities. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shindig
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. --Eric Hoffer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer