Tiberius III (died c. 706) was Byzantine emperor from 698 to 705. He
was a mid-level commander who served in the Cibyrrhaeot Theme. In 696,
he was part of an army sent by Emperor Leontius to retake Carthage from
the Umayyads. After seizing the city, the army was pushed back by Arab
reinforcements and retreated to Crete. Some officers, fearing Leontius,
killed their commander and declared Tiberius emperor. Tiberius gathered
a fleet, sailed for Constantinople, and deposed Leontius. He did not
attempt to retake Byzantine Africa from the Umayyads, but campaigned
against them along the eastern border. In 705, former emperor
Justinian II, previously deposed by Leontius, led an army of Slavs and
Bulgars from the First Bulgarian Empire to Constantinople, and deposed
Tiberius. Tiberius fled to Bithynia, but was captured a few months later
and beheaded between August 705 and February 706. His body was initially
thrown into the sea, but was later recovered and buried in a church on
the island of Prote.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_III>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1745:
War of the Austrian Succession: French victory at the Battle of
Melle enabled their subsequent capture of Ghent in the Dutch Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Melle>
1868:
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, was
ratified by the minimum required twenty-eight states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1981:
Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong (cabinet
pictured), which featured the debut of Mario, one of the most famous
characters in video-game history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario>
2008:
Under the belief that Israel and the United States were
planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet
III missile test and war games exercise.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hurtle:
1. (transitive, archaic)
2. To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
3. To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person
or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
4. (figuratively) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in
writing.
5. (intransitive)
6. To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy
manner.
7. (archaic)
8. Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing,
especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to
collide together; to clash.
9. To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter,
to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
10. (figuratively) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent
encounter; to clash; to jostle.
11. (countable) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
12. (countable, also figuratively) A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a
dash, a rush.
13. (countable) A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a
rattling.
14. (uncountable, figuratively) (Violent) disagreement; conflict. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hurtle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
--June Jordan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/June_Jordan>