John J. Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an
American politician. He was the 17th governor of Kentucky, and
represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the
U.S. Senate. He also served as United States Attorney General in the
administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and Millard
Fillmore. Lame duck president John Quincy Adams nominated Crittenden to
the U.S. Supreme Court on December 17, 1828, but supporters of
president-elect Andrew Jackson in the Senate voted to allow Jackson to
make his own nomination. While serving in the Senate in December 1860,
he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and
constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but
Congress would not approve them. One of his sons, George B. Crittenden,
became a general in the Confederate Army. Another son, Thomas Leonidas
Crittenden, became a general in the Union Army.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Crittenden>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh>
1946:
While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu,
later Mother Teresa, experienced what she later described as "the call
within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor
while living among them".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa>
1960:
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics,
Abebe Bikila became the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win an
Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila>
2000:
Operation Barras freed six British soldiers held captive for
over two weeks, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barras>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
manacle:
1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined
rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle
to restrict free movement.
2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manacle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to
creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising,
and gave to it neither power nor time.
--Mary Oliver
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver>
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