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ArcaMax History and Quotes for Charles Friday December 12,
2003
Today is Friday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2003
with 19 to follow.
Those born on this date
include John Jay, first chief justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court, in 1745; abolitionist William Lloyd
Garrison in 1805; French novelist Gustave Flaubert in
1821; Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in 1863; actor
Edward G. Robinson in 1893; singer/actor Frank Sinatra
in 1915; TV game show host Bob Barker in 1923 (age 80);
former New York Mayor Edward Koch in 1924 (age 79);
singers Connie Francis in 1938 (age 65) and Dionne
Warwick in 1941 (age 62); talk show host Rush Limbaugh
in 1951 (age 52); former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby in
1952 (age 51); musician Sheila E in 1959 (age 44);
former tennis player Tracy Austin in 1962 (age 43); and
actress Mayim Bialik in 1975 (age 28).
On this
date in history:
In 1870, Joseph Hayne Rainey of
South Carolina was sworn in as the first black to serve
in the U.S. House.
In 1901, Italian physicist and
radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio
transmission across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1913,
two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in
Paris, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Mona Lisa"
was recovered in a Florence, Italy, hotel
room.
In 1917, Father Edward J. Flanagan, a
31-year-old Irish priest, opened the doors to Boys Town,
a home for troubled and neglected children in Omaha,
Neb. He lived by the adage, "There is no such thing as a
bad boy."
In 1937, Japanese planes bombed and
sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River north
of Nanking, China. Japan later said it was a
mistake.
In 1968, stage and screen actress
Tallulah Bankhead died at the age of 65.
In 1975,
Sara Jane Moore said she willfully tried to kill
President Ford. She is serving a life prison
sentence.
In 1981, martial law was imposed in
Poland.
In 1985, the crash of an Arrow Air DC-8
military charter on takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland,
killed all 256 aboard, including 248 U.S.
soldiers.
In 1989, five Central American
presidents, including Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, called
for an end to the rebel offensive against El Salvador's
U.S.-backed government.
In 1990, 15 people were
killed and more than 260 injured in a pileup on a foggy
Tennessee highway.
In 1991, the Russian
parliament ratified a commonwealth treaty linking the
three strongest Soviet republics in the nation's most
profound change since the 1917 revolution.
Also
in 1991, North and South Korea concluded an historic
agreement to reunify peacefully after 46 years of
division and animosity.
In 1992, Princess Anne,
the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain,
became the first divorced royal in the inner circle to
remarry when she wed Cmdr. Timothy Laurence.
In
1993, Russian voters approved a new
Constitution.
In 1996, a French gunman took 35
hostages in a Paris office. The standoff ended without
injuries.
In 1998, President Clinton began a trip
to the Middle East that included a visit to the new Gaza
International Airport in Palestinian
territory.
In 2002, North Korea announced it
would reactivate a nuclear reactor idle since
1994.
Also in 2002, the European Union invited 10
nations, including Poland and Hungary, to join its ranks
in 2004.
A thought for the day: Leon Blum wrote,
"I have often thought morality may perhaps consist
solely in the courage of making a choice."
(c)
Copyright 2003 by United Press International. All rights
reserved.
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Classic
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Third
president of
US
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"Determine never
to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we
are always
doing."
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"Banking
establishments are more dangerous than standing
armies."
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"I do not
take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I
feel myself infinitely the happier for
it."
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"I'm a great
believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more
I have of it."
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"Never
trouble another for what you can do for
yourself."
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