Ted Kaczynski (born 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American
domestic terrorist, primitivist and former mathematics professor. He was
accepted to Harvard College at the age of 16 and, after graduating and
earning his PhD, he taught at UC Berkeley for three years. He then moved
to a small cabin in Montana to pursue a simple life. Kaczynski began
sending mail bombs to people associated with universities, airlines, and
the advancement of modern technology in 1978. He mailed a total of
sixteen bombs, killing 3 people and injuring 23 others. Kaczynski's
bombing campaign came under investigation by the FBI, who employed over
150 people in the most expensive FBI investigation ever conducted at the
time. Kaczynski's manifesto, an anarcho-primitivist essay, was published
in The Washington Post on the condition that he would desist from
terrorism. He was eventually arrested in 1996 (mug shot pictured) and
later imprisoned at ADX Florence in Colorado.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
The major powers of Europe signed the Treaty of London to
resolve a crisis over the political status of Luxembourg between France
and Prussia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_%281867%29>
1894:
In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car
Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west
of Chicago to a halt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike>
1981:
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), the first
megamusical, opened at the New London Theatre to become an unprecedented
commercial success.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%28musical%29>
1998:
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first
since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brubru:
Also more fully as brubru shrike: a bird in the bushshrike family found
in sub-Saharan Africa (Nilaus afer).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brubru>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that
state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion.
Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by
tradition and memory. It is attention that allows silence to come upon
the mind, which is the opening of the door to creation. That is why
attention is of the highest importance. Knowledge is necessary at the
functional level as a means of cultivating the mind, and not as an end
in itself. We are concerned, not with the development of just one
capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a
musician, but with the total development of the student as a human
being.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti>