John Sherman (1823–1900) was an American congressman and senator from Ohio during the second half of the nineteenth century. The brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman, he was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. As a Republican senator, he worked on legislation to restore the nation's credit abroad and produce a stable, gold-backed currency at home. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury under President Rutherford B. Hayes, Sherman helped to end wartime inflationary measures and to oversee the law allowing dollars to be redeemed for gold. He returned to the Senate after his term ended, continuing his work on financial legislation, as well as laws on immigration, business competition, and interstate commerce. In 1897, he was appointed Secretary of State by President William McKinley, but due to failing health, retired in 1898 at the start of the Spanish–American War. (This article is part of a featured topic: 1880 United States presidential election.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1025:

Constantine VIII became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VIII

1467:

Troops under Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the forces of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary at the Battle of Baia in present-day Romania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baia

1890:

Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull

1981:

The Iraqi Shia Islamist group al-Dawa carried out one of the first modern suicide bombings, targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in 61 deaths and at least 100 injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Iraqi_embassy_bombing_in_Beirut

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

secern: 1. (transitive) 2. (archaic) To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things). 3. (by extension) To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish. 4. (physiology, archaic) Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”) 5. (intransitive) 6. Of a person or thing: to become separated from others. 7. (physiology, rare) To secrete a substance. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secern

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.   --Muriel Rukeyser https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser