Mark Hanna (1837–1904) was a Republican United States Senator from Ohio and the friend and political manager of President William McKinley. Born in New Lisbon (today Lisbon), Ohio, in 1837, he moved to Cleveland with his family in his teenage years and attended high school with John D. Rockefeller. Hanna made millions as a businessman by his 40th birthday, and turned his attention to politics. Despite Hanna's efforts on his behalf, Ohio Senator John Sherman failed to gain the Republican nomination for president in 1884 and 1888. With Sherman too old to be considered a contender, Hanna used his money and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaign in 1896. Declining a Cabinet position, Hanna secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State; the Ohio General Assembly re-elected Hanna in 1898 and 1904. He managed McKinley's successful re-election campaign in 1900. Savage cartoons by such illustrators as Homer Davenport lampooned him as McKinley's political master. After McKinley's assassination in 1901, Hanna worked for the building of a canal in Panama, rather than elsewhere in Central America.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
The United States Navy battleship USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana, Cuba (wreckage pictured), killing more than 260 people and precipitating the Spanish–American War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)
1954:
The Canadian and American governments agreed to jointly build the Distant Early Warning Line, a line of radar stations running across the high Arctic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line
1989:
The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan after a nine-year conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
1996:
A Long March 3B rocket carrying the communications satellite Intelsat 708 crashed immediately after launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, destroying a nearby town and killing an unknown number of inhabitants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708
2013:
A previously-undetected meteor exploded in mid-air over Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with the resulting shock wave injuring more than 1,500 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
bridge the gap: (idiomatic) To serve as or create a connection between two disconnected or disparate things. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bridge_the_gap
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise. --Miranda July https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miranda_July