The 1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held by the
Pennsylvania General Assembly starting on January 17, 1899, to fill the
Senate seat occupied by Matthew Quay, the state's Republican political
boss. Quay sought election to a third term, but was damaged by an
indictment for financial irregularities. Although Republicans had a
majority in the legislature, enough were opposed to Quay to deny him re-
election. After 79 ballots, the session ended on April 20, the day Quay
was acquitted, without the election of a senator. Governor William A.
Stone appointed Quay to the seat, but the Senate refused to seat him.
Quay blamed his fellow Republican boss, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, for
this and revenged himself at the 1900 Republican National Convention by
backing Thomas C. Platt's scheme to politically sideline Governor
Theodore Roosevelt of New York by making him vice president, over
Hanna's strong objection. The 1901 legislature elected Quay to the
Senate and he served there until his death in 1904.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_United_States_Senate_election_in_Pennsylvania>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
On James Cook's second voyage, his vessel HMS Resolution
became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook>
1912:
Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached
the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them
by 33 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition>
1961:
Patrice Lumumba, a former prime minister of
Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the
support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments and the UN.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba>
2002:
Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, began an eruption that killed hundreds and left about 120,000
people homeless in the nearby town of Goma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
crunkmeister:
(music, slang, rare) A performer of crunk music.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crunkmeister>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank,
birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of
accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts
and souls.
--Anne Brontë
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