Jean Schmidt is an American politician. She is a U.S. Representative-elect of the Republican Party from the U.S. state of Ohio who is scheduled to be sworn in at 6:30 p.m. EDT on September 6, 2005, after winning a special election on August 2 in the state's second district to replace Rob Portman. Schmidt is the second Ohio woman of her party to be elected to Congress without succeeding her husband and the first woman to represent southwestern Ohio in Congress. Schmidt is a lifelong resident of Clermont County and won an 11-candidate primary on June 14, 2005. Schmidt faced Democratic nominee Paul Hackett, an attorney and Marine who served in the Iraq War in the special election, in which she won by 3.5 percent amid national attention. The narrowness of her victory in a district accustomed to Republican landslides led many Democrats to claim a victory for their party and forecast trouble for the Republicans in the 2006 House election.
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394: : The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeated the pagan usurper Eugenius in the Battle of Frigidus. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_I)
1522: : The Victoria returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano)
1941: : Holocaust: All Jews over the age of 6 were required to wear the Star of David in areas controlled by Nazi Germany. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_David)
1955: : Ethnic Greeks in Istanbul were attacked by an overwhelming Turkish mob during the Istanbul Pogrom. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Pogrom)
1995: : Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. played his 2131st consecutive major league baseball game, breaking the 56-year old record set by New York Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken%2C_Jr.)
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"No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." -- Robert M. Pirsig (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig)
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