Louis Leblanc (born January 26, 1991) is a former professional ice hockey player. A centre, Leblanc played minor hockey in the Montreal region before playing one season with the Omaha Lancers and becoming Rookie of the Year. At the 2009 NHL entry draft, he was selected 18th overall by the Montreal Canadiens. He then spent one season with Harvard Crimson, being named Ivy League rookie of the year, before signing a contract with the Canadiens in 2010. Later that year, Leblanc joined the Montreal Juniors. He spent three seasons with the Canadiens, mainly playing for their American Hockey League affiliate, before being traded in 2014 to the Anaheim Ducks, who kept him in the AHL. In 2015, Leblanc moved to Europe, joining HC Slovan Bratislava, playing seven games before being released. He appeared in four games for Lausanne HC, then retired from hockey. Internationally, Leblanc played in the 2008 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. (Full article...).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1926:
Oliver Hutchinson appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
1972:
JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
1991:
Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Farrah_Aidid
2001:
An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 13,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake
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furphy: 1. (Australia, slang) An erroneous or improbable story; also, a rumour. 2. About Word of the Day 3. Nominate a word 4. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furphy
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war. --Douglas MacArthur https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur