Eddie Gerard (February 22, 1890 – August 7, 1937) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he played professionally for ten seasons for the Ottawa Senators, as a left winger for three years before switching to defence. He was the first player to win the Stanley Cup four years in a row, from 1920 to 1923, three times with the Senators and once as an injury replacement player with the Toronto St. Patricks. After his playing career he served as a coach and manager, working with the Montreal Maroons from 1925 until 1929, and winning the Stanley Cup in 1926. He coached the New York Americans for two seasons before returning to the Maroons for two more seasons, then ended his career coaching the St. Louis Eagles in 1934. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era, Gerard was one of the original nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945. He was also inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1959:

Lee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500, a NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500

1974:

Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate U.S. president Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck

2019:

A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident

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vexation: 1. (uncountable) The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this. 2. (uncountable) The action of physically annoying or irritating a person or an animal; (countable) an instance of this; also, a physical discomfort or disorder. 3. (law, uncountable) The action of vexing or annoying someone by bringing unjustified legal proceedings against them; (countable) an instance of this. 4. (uncountable) The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this. 5. (uncountable) The state of being mentally distressed or troubled. 6. (uncountable) The state of being physically annoyed or irritated. 7. (countable) A source of mental distress or trouble; an affliction, a woe; also, a source of annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, an irritant. 8. (obsolete, uncountable) The action of using force or violence on someone or something; (countable) an instance of this. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vexation

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.   --George Washington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington