Jarome Iginla is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a longtime member and former captain of the Calgary Flames and also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins before joining the Avalanche in 2014. In 2001–02 he led the NHL in goals and points and won the Lester B. Pearson Award as its most valuable player as voted by the players. In 2003–04 Iginla led the league in goals for the second time and captained the Flames to the Stanley Cup Finals, leading the league in playoff scoring. A six-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals, points, and games played, and is second in assists to Al MacInnis. Iginla twice scored 50 goals in a season and is one of seven players in NHL history to score 30 goals in 11 consecutive seasons. He has scored 589 goals and 1,226 points in his career. Internationally, he represented Canada's championship teams at the 1996 World Junior and 1997 World Championships as well as the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. He is a two-time Olympic gold medal winner, including at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where he helped lead Canada to its first Olympic hockey championship in 50 years.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1569:

The Union of Lublin was signed, merging the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Lublin

1874:

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

1915:

World War I: German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens became the first person to shoot down another plane in aerial combat using a synchronized machine gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wintgens

1935:

Grant Park Music Festival, the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series, began its tradition of free symphonic music concerts in Chicago's Grant Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Park_Music_Festival

1999:

Legislative governance of Scotland was transferred from the Scottish Office in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

scuppernong: 1. A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia). 2. A sweet, golden or amber-colored American wine made from this variety of grape. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scuppernong

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Experiment and reflection enable us to introduce a significance into what is not legible, either to us or at all … the gradation we establish in the order of creatures: all this is not in the things but in us. In general we cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.   --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg