John J. Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an American politician. He was the 17th governor of Kentucky, and represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He also served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. Lame duck president John Quincy Adams nominated Crittenden to the U.S. Supreme Court on December 17, 1828, but supporters of president-elect Andrew Jackson in the Senate voted to allow Jackson to make his own nomination. While serving in the Senate in December 1860, he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but Congress would not approve them. One of his sons, George B. Crittenden, became a general in the Confederate Army. Another son, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, became a general in the Union Army.
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1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh
1946:
While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, experienced what she later described as "the call within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
1960:
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila
2000:
Operation Barras freed six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barras
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manacle: 1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement. 2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction. 3. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manacle
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. --Mary Oliver https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver