Easy Jet (1967–92) was an American Quarter Horse foaled, or born, in 1967, and was one of only two horses to have been a member of the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Hall of Fame as well as being an offspring of members. Easy Jet won the 1969 All American Futurity, the highest race for Quarter Horse racehorses, and was named World Champion Quarter Race Horse in the same year. He earned the highest speed rating awarded at the time—AAAT. After winning 27 of his 38 races in two years of racing, he retired from the race track and became a breeding stallion. As a sire, or father, he was the first All American Futurity winner to sire an All American Futurity winner, and went on to sire three winners of that race, and nine Champion Quarter Running Horses. Ultimately, his ownership and breeding rights were split into 60 shares worth $500,000 each—a total of $30 million. By 1993, the year after his death, his foals had earned more than $25 million on the racetrack. Easy Jet was of sorrel color, a light yellowish-red. He stood about 15.3 hands high (63 inches; 160 cm) and had a large star and a stripe on his face.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1860:

South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America

1955:

Cardiff (Cardiff City Hall pictured) was proclaimed as the capital of Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff

1968:

The Zodiac Killer murdered the first of his five confirmed victims in Vallejo, California, a case which remains unsolved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer

1988:

The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances governing international cooperation against the illegal drug trade was signed in Vienna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances

1995:

As per the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the NATO-led IFOR began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_Force

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

deracinate: 1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. 2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location. 3. To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deracinate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles... For even a Sphere — which is my proper name in my own country — if he manifest himself at all to an inhabitant of Flatland — must needs manifest himself as a Circle.   --Edwin Abbott Abbott https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott