Joseph B. Foraker (1846–1917) was the 37th Governor of Ohio
(1886–1890) and a Republican U.S. Senator (1897–1909). Born in rural
Ohio, Foraker enlisted in the Union Army at age 16 and fought in the
Civil War. After the war, he was a member of Cornell's first graduating
class, and became a lawyer; he was elected a judge in 1879. Although
defeated in his first run for governor in 1883, he was elected in 1885.
Foraker lost re-election in 1889, but was elected senator by the
legislature in 1896. In the Senate, he supported the Spanish-American
War and the annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico. He differed
with President Theodore Roosevelt over the Brownsville Affair, in which
black soldiers had been accused of terrorizing a Texas town; Roosevelt
had dismissed the entire battalion. Foraker fought unsuccessfully for
their reinstatement, and Roosevelt helped defeat Foraker's re-election
bid. In 1972, the Army reversed the dismissals and cleared the
soldiers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Foraker>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des
Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in
Munich.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Rheingold>
1914:
First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy
cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_22_September_1914>
1979:
An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of
light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be
a nuclear weapons test.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident>
2013:
Two suicide bombers attacked a church in Peshawar, Pakistan,
killing 127 and injuring over 250 others in the deadliest attack on the
Christian minority in the country's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshawar_church_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
martial:
1. (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
2. (comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the
profession of arms or military life.
3. (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a
military bearing; soldierly.
4. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological
influence of the planet Mars.
5. (not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet
Mars; Martian.
6. (not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or
relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet
Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/martial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular
principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that,
because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act
rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that
he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We
are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives
motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in
their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.
--Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield>