Bazy Tankersley (1921–2013) was an American breeder of Arabian horses
and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of Senator Joseph M.
McCormick and Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Her father died when
she was a child, and she moved west when her mother remarried, where she
was given a part-Arabian horse. She began working as a reporter at 18,
and began her horse breeding operation, Al-Marah Arabians, in 1941. In
1949, she became the publisher of the conservative Washington Times-
Herald owned by her uncle, Robert R. McCormick, where she became a
friend of Senator Joseph McCarthy. When McCormick demanded she choose
between the newspaper and Garvin "Tank" Tankersley, who became her
second husband, she shifted to full-time horse breeding. By 1957 Al-
Marah was the largest Arabian horse farm in the United States. Over her
career she bred more than 2,800 registered Arabians. Though she was
involved with conservative Republican causes as a young woman, she was a
strong supporter of environmental causes in the 21st century and backed
Barack Obama for president in 2008. She was a patron of many charities.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazy_Tankersley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
655:
Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the
Battle of the Winwaed in modern-day Yorkshire, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penda_of_Mercia>
1760:
The chapel of the new Castellania Palace in Valletta, Malta,
was consecrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellania_(Valletta)>
1889:
Brazilian Emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by
Deodoro da Fonseca, and Brazil was proclaimed a republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_and_fall_of_Pedro_II_of_Brazil>
1959:
Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas, U.S.; the events
became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a
pioneering work of the true crime genre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood>
1968:
Vietnam War: American forces launched Operation Commando Hunt,
a large-scale bombing campaign to prevent the People's Army of Vietnam
from transporting personnel and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Commando_Hunt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jingoistic:
Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring
war or an aggressive foreign policy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jingoistic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is
based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate
willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are
illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
--J. G. Ballard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard>