Will P. Brady (1876–1943) was an American lawyer, the first district attorney for Texas's 70th judicial district from 1909 to around 1914, and the judge for the El Paso County Court at Law from 1917 to 1919. Brady was born to a pioneering Austin family and grew up there. After service as a teacher in Travis County, Texas, he served as county school superintendent from 1900 to 1904. He then became a lawyer, and spent several years in private practice. As district attorney, Brady prosecuted several high-profile murder cases, including one that has since been termed a "legal lynching", a death penalty case of a Mexican boy charged with killing a white woman. Brady moved to El Paso in 1915 and resumed private practice, but was soon named a judge. He resigned in 1919 and moved to California to pursue interests in oil. Brady was a Democrat and deeply involved in public affairs throughout his adult life. He also incorporated both the Cruces Oil Corporation and the Pecos Valley Southern Railway.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1899:

A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins

1954:

The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk_Nuclear_Power_Plant

1989:

Convention 169, a major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the International Labour Organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_and_Tribal_Peoples_Convention,_1989

2018:

The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

lesbiandom: 1. The quality or state of being a lesbian. 2. Lesbians collectively. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lesbiandom

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.   --Helen Keller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller