John Early (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit who held several prominent positions in American academia. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1833 and was educated in Maryland and Washington, D.C. After he began ministering, he was appointed the president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848. In 1852, he founded St. Ignatius Church and Loyola College in Baltimore to educate the lay former students of St. Mary's Seminary and College. Early left in 1858 to become the president of Georgetown University, which operated through the Civil War despite being commandeered several times by the Union Army. In 1866, Early returned to Loyola College as president, where he restarted the conferral of degrees following the war. He finally returned to Georgetown in 1870 as president and oversaw the first years of the Law Department. He died in 1873.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1874:

The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter

1943:

The municipality of Tokyo City was dissolved, with its territory forming the special wards of the newly established Tokyo Metropolis (government building pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo

2008:

Rioting erupted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, over allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_riot_in_Mongolia

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

motlopi: The shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most important forage trees of the Kalahari. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motlopi

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.   --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg