Hillary Clinton (born 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer,
and writer. She was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, a
U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and the 67th secretary of
state from 2009 to 2013. As a Democrat running in the 2016 presidential
election, she became the first woman to receive the nomination of a
major U.S. political party. Clinton was raised in the Chicago suburb of
Park Ridge. She graduated from Wellesley College, and in 1973 earned a
law degree from Yale, where she met future president Bill Clinton; they
married in 1975. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal
Services Corporation in 1978. As U.S. secretary of state in the Obama
administration, Clinton helped organize international sanctions against
Iran in an effort to curtail that country's nuclear program, leading to
the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1858:
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S.
Senate, was held in Ottawa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates>
1944:
World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the
strategically important town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive
of the Battle of Normandy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tractable>
1963:
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces raided and
vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and
leaving hundreds dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%A1_L%E1%BB%A3i_Pagoda_raids>
1969:
An Australian tourist set the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on
fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anhedonic:
(psychiatry, also figuratively) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to
feel pleasure.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anhedonic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We uncovered new forces, we took a step along what may be an
endless path toward divinity, we redirected the entire thrust of
psychoanalytic theory, and, as with all knowledge, we found that deeper
and more compelling mysteries yet lay beyond those we had reduced to the
security of fact.
--Lucius Shepard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucius_Shepard>
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