80px|Hod Stuart
Hod Stuart (1879–1907) was a Canadian professional ice hockey
cover-point (now known as a defenceman) who played nine seasons for
several teams in different leagues. He also played briefly for the
Ottawa Rough Riders football team. With his brother Bruce, Stuart
played in the first professional ice hockey league, the American-based
International Professional Hockey League (IPHL), where he was regarded
as one of the best players in the league. Frustrated with the violence
associated with the IPHL, he left the league late in 1906 and returned
to Canada, where in 1907 he helped the Montreal Wanderers win the
Stanley Cup, the championship trophy for hockey. Two months later, he
died in a diving accident. To raise money for his widow and children,
the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association hosted an all-star game,
the first of its kind to be played in any sport. In an era where
defencemen were expected to stay behind during the play, Stuart became
known for his ability to score goals while playing a defensive role,
and for his ability to remain calm during matches that often turned
violent. His efforts were acknowledged when the Hockey Hall of Fame was
created in 1945 and he became one of the first twelve players to be
inducted. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1542:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners
with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solway_Moss>
1859:
On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first
published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species>
1906:
A local newspaper accused members of two American football teams of
conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first known case of
professional gamblers attempting to fix a professional sport.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Bulldogs%E2%80%93Massillon_Tigers_betting_scandal>
1963:
Businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the
alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live
television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby>
1974:
A group of paleoanthropologists led by Donald Johanson discovered a
3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the
Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" after The Beatles
song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
trepanation (n):
The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or
spiritual treatment
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trepanation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear,
nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear,
that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to
strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to
himself or others.
No, the object of government is not to change men from rational
beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their
minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled;
neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of
jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.
--Baruch Spinoza
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