Hillary Clinton (born 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer. She was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, a U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and the 67th secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. As a Democrat running in the 2016 presidential election, she became the first woman to receive the nomination of a major U.S. political party. Clinton was raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. She graduated from Wellesley College, and in 1973 earned a law degree from Yale, where she met future president Bill Clinton; they married in 1975. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. As U.S. secretary of state in the Obama administration, Clinton helped organize international sanctions against Iran in an effort to curtail that country's nuclear program, leading to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1858:
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates
1944:
World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the strategically important town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tractable
1963:
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%A1_L%E1%BB%A3i_Pagoda_raids
1969:
An Australian tourist set the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
anhedonic: (psychiatry, also figuratively) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to feel pleasure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anhedonic
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We uncovered new forces, we took a step along what may be an endless path toward divinity, we redirected the entire thrust of psychoanalytic theory, and, as with all knowledge, we found that deeper and more compelling mysteries yet lay beyond those we had reduced to the security of fact. Â --Lucius Shepard https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucius_Shepard