Miss Meyers (1949 – March 1963) was a chestnut-colored American Quarter Horse racehorse and broodmare. Her sire was American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Hall of Fame member Leo, and her dam was Star's Lou. Miss Meyers raced from 1952 until 1955 and started 59 times. She was also the 1953 World Champion Quarter Running Horse. In her career she won $28,725 (equivalent to about $249,000 as of 2012) on the racetrack as well as 17 races. As a broodmare, she produced the first AQHA Supreme Champion, Kid Meyers, with AQHA Hall of Fame member Three Bars, a Thoroughbred. Miss Myers was the mother of three other foals and was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2009.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Meyers

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1883:

New York City opened the Brooklyn Bridge – the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge

1930:

English aviatrix Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to successfully fly from England to Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson

1941:

Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in eleven minutes at the Battle of the Denmark Strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Denmark_Strait

1962:

Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter

2006:

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

shylock: (intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shylock

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. --Harry Emerson Fosdick https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick