The 1867 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, voted on by the state
legislature, was held on January 15, 1867. Simon Cameron was elected to
the Senate for the third time; he had been chosen in 1845 and in 1857.
Cameron and Governor Andrew Curtin each led a faction of Republicans and
had clashed as early as 1855. Cameron tried to block Curtin from the
party nomination for governor in 1860, while Curtin attempted to get
Cameron excluded from Abraham Lincoln's cabinet; each failed. With the
Republicans holding a majority in the 1867 legislature, the battle was
for the party's endorsement, which Thaddeus Stevens and Galusha Grow
also sought. The party caucus chose Cameron, who then defeated incumbent
Edgar Cowan, the Democratic Party nominee. Cowan never again held
office; Curtin later served in Congress as a Democrat. Cameron remained
in the Senate until he resigned in 1877 to allow his son to take the
seat. The Cameron political machine dominated Pennsylvania politics for
a half century.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867_United_States_Senate_election_in_Pennsylvania>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1567:
The siege of Inabayama Castle, the final battle in Oda
Nobunaga's campaign to conquer Mino Province, began; it culminated in a
decisive victory for Nobunaga.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Inabayama_Castle>
1848:
An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad
foreman Phineas Gage; his survival and recovery influenced 19th-century
discussion of psychology and neuroscience.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage>
1919:
The Boston police strike ended after four days of rule by the
state militia, the deaths of nine people, and accusations that striking
officers were "agents of Lenin".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_police_strike>
2005:
A software bug caused a simulated pandemic in the online video
game World of Warcraft, serving as a model for epidemiologists to
understand how human interaction influences disease outbreaks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unseat:
1. (transitive)
2. To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
3. (figurative)
4. To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a
political one; to dethrone.
5. To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to
displace, to overturn.
6. To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to
unsettle.
7. (intransitive, technical) To come off or out of a seat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unseat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift
and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured,
because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong
in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared
with others.
--Robin Wall Kimmerer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer>