John Sherman Cooper (1901–1991) was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat. He began his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives (1927–29) before being elected as a county judge in 1930. After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II and reorganizing the Bavarian judicial system after Germany's defeat, he was a Kentucky circuit judge before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1946. He was defeated in the 1948 election, but re-elected to partial terms in 1952 and 1956, serving as Ambassador to India in between. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1960 and 1966 by record margins for Kentucky. President John F. Kennedy chose Cooper to conduct a secret fact-finding mission to Moscow and New Delhi. Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Cooper to the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. Cooper soon became an outspoken opponent of Johnson's decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Aging and increasingly deaf, Cooper did not seek re-election in 1972. His last acts of public service were as Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976 and as an alternate delegate to the United Nations in 1981.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1514:
Ottoman forces defeated the Safavids at the Battle of Chaldiran, gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaldiran
1873:
The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London
1914:
In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force defeated German troops in Mons, Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons
1944:
King Michael dismissed the pro-Axis government of General Ion Antonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu
1989:
Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form an over 600 km (370 mi) long human chain across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their respective desires for independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
malleate: To beat into shape with a hammer. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malleate
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
 We are the Choice of the Will: God, when He gave the word That called us into line, set in our hand a sword; Set us a sword to wield none else could lift and draw, And bade us forth to the sound of the trumpet of the Law. --William Ernest Henley https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley
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