Will P. Brady (1876–1943) was an American lawyer, the first district
attorney for Texas's 70th judicial district from 1909 to around 1914,
and the judge for the El Paso County Court at Law from 1917 to 1919.
Brady was born to a pioneering Austin family and grew up there. After
service as a teacher in Travis County, Texas, he served as county school
superintendent from 1900 to 1904. He then became a lawyer, and spent
several years in private practice. As district attorney, Brady
prosecuted several high-profile murder cases, including one that has
since been termed a "legal lynching", a death penalty case of a Mexican
boy charged with killing a white woman. Brady moved to El Paso in 1915
and resumed private practice, but was soon named a judge. He resigned in
1919 and moved to California to pursue interests in oil. Brady was a
Democrat and deeply involved in public affairs throughout his adult
life. He also incorporated both the Cruces Oil Corporation and the
Pecos Valley Southern Railway.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_P._Brady>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest
recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins>
1954:
The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow was connected to
the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to
produce electricity industrially.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk_Nuclear_Power_Plant>
1989:
Convention 169, a major binding international convention
concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the International
Labour Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_and_Tribal_Peoples_Convention,_1989>
2018:
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression
pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to
Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lesbiandom:
1. The quality or state of being a lesbian.
2. Lesbians collectively.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lesbiandom>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I
should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not
visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg
night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful
solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to
myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any
physical deprivation.
--Helen Keller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller>