Samuel Mulledy (1811–1866) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit.
Born in Virginia, he attended Georgetown College in Washington, D.C.,
where his brother, Thomas F. Mulledy, was the president. He then entered
the Society of Jesus in 1831 and proved to be a good student. He was
sent to Rome to study for the priesthood and to prepare for teaching.
Upon his return, he held senior academic positions, culminating in his
appointment as president of Georgetown College in 1845. Mulledy
reluctantly accepted the position but requested to be relieved just
eight months later. He continued to teach and minister, until his
expulsion from the Jesuit order in 1850 due to alcoholism. For the next
decade, he was a transient at churches in Massachusetts and New York,
until being assigned to St. Lawrence O'Toole in New York City, where he
remained for the rest of his life. On his deathbed, Mulledy successfully
petitioned to be re-admitted to the Society of Jesus.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mulledy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old
West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30
miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Hart>
1959:
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour
between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New
Zealand, officially opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Harbour_Bridge>
2005:
American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-
school graduation trip to Aruba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
BANANA:
(informal, humorous, derogatory, often attributively) One who objects to
the building of any structure in their neighbourhood, especially in
public policy debate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BANANA>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged
position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man,
whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved
in intellect and heart.
--Mikhail Bakunin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin>