Paul Henderson (born January 28, 1943) is a former professional ice hockey player from Canada. A left winger, he played thirteen seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames and five in the World Hockey Association for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls. Appearing in over 1,000 games, he scored 376 goals and 758 points. He led Team Canada to victory at the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, scoring the game- winning goal in the sixth, seventh and eighth games, the last of which was voted the "sports moment of the century" by The Canadian Press. The series, played at the height of the Cold War, was viewed as a battle for hockey supremacy. Henderson played in two All-Star Games and has twice been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (individually and as a member of the 1972 national team). He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2013.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1754:

Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole

1933:

Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or Never" in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he termed "Pakstan". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration

1958:

The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, patented the design of Lego bricks (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

1981:

U.S. President Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, helping usher in the 1980s oil glut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

caliginous: (archaic or literary) Dark, obscure; murky. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caliginous

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. We must say no once more. Man is not free to watch impassively the enslavement and dishonor of men, nor their struggles for liberty and honor.   --José Martí https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD