Charlie Brown: Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
–Peanuts – Charles M. Schultz (1922-2000)
Month: January 2012
…And How Does That Make You a Better Person?!
On This Day: January 29
Updated January 28, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston.
On Jan. 29, 1843, William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born. Following an assassination attempt on Sept. 6, 1901, his biography appeared in The Times. He died from the wounds eight days later.
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1820 Britain’s King George III died insane at Windsor Castle. 1843 William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. 1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state. 1860 Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog. 1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. 1900 The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia. 1936 The first five members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y. 1958 Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married. 1963 Poet Robert Frost died at age 88. 1979 President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations. 1995 The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. 1998 A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) 2006 ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. 2009 The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. 2010 Abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S. 2011 With protests raging, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named his intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, as his first-ever vice president as chaos engulfed Cairo. Current Birthdays
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Talk show host Oprah Winfrey turns 58 years old today.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., turns 42 years old today.
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1940 Katharine Ross, Actress, turns 72 1945 Tom Selleck, Actor (“Magnum P.I.”), turns 67 1950 Ann Jillian, Actress, turns 62 1956 Irlene Mandrell, Country singer, turns 56 1958 Judy Norton Taylor, Actress (“The Waltons”), turns 54 1960 Greg Louganis, Olympic gold-medal diver, turns 52 1962 Nicholas Turturro, Actor (“NYPD Blue”), turns 50 1965 Dominik Hasek, Hockey player, turns 47 1968 Edward Burns, Actor, director, turns 44 1970 Heather Graham, Actress, turns 42 1975 Sara Gilbert, Actress (“Roseanne,” “The Big Bang Theory”), turns 37 1981 Jonny Lang, Blues musician, turns 31
Historic Birthdays
William McKinley 1/29/1843 – 9/14/1901 America’s 25th President.Go to obituary »
84 Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1688 – 3/29/1772
Swedish scientist/Christian mystic80 Jeffery Amherst 1/29/1717 – 8/3/1797
English/American army commander72 Thomas Paine 1/29/1737 – 6/8/1809
English/American political pamphleteer62 Henry Lee 1/29/1756 – 3/25/1818
American Revolutionary War officer44 Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860 – 7/15/1904
Russian playwright72 Frederick Delius 1/29/1862 – 6/10/1934
English/French composer78 Romain Rolland 1/29/1866 – 12/30/1944
French novelist/dramatist86 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1/29/1874 – 5/11/1960
American philanthropist68 Barney Oldfield 1/29/1878 – 10/4/1946
American race car driver66 W.C. Fields 1/29/1880 – 12/25/1946
American comedian58 Paddy Chayefsky 1/29/1923 – 8/1/1981
American playwright/screenwriter
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On This Day: January 28
Updated January 27, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members.
On Jan. 28 , 1887, Arthur Rubinstein, the Polish-American virtuoso pianist, was born. Following his death on Dec. 20, 1982, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1547 England’s King Henry VIII died. 1853 Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti was born in Havana. 1871 France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War. 1909 The United States ended direct control over Cuba. 1915 The Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress. 1916 Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member. 1945 During World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road. 1959 Vince Lombardi was named head coach of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. 1973 A cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War. 1999 Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, honoring a personal request for mercy from Pope John Paul II, spared a triple murderer from execution. 2003 President George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had sought uranium from Africa. (The claim was later disputed by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had been asked by the CIA to investigate.) 2009 In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a huge $819 billion stimulus bill 244-188 with Republicans unanimous in opposition. 2010 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke won Senate confirmation for a second term. Current Birthdays
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy turns 57 years old today.
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Actor Alan Alda (“M*A*S*H”) turns 76 years old today.
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1947 Jeanne Shaheen, U.S. senator, D-N.H., turns 65 1950 Barbi Benton, Actress, turns 62 1957 Nick Price, Golfer, turns 55 1968 Sarah McLachlan, Rock singer, turns 44 1969 Kathryn Morris, Actress (“Cold Case”), turns 43 1977 Joey Fatone Jr., Singer (‘N Sync), turns 35 1977 Rick Ross, Rapper, turns 35 1979 Rosamund Pike, Actress, turns 33 1980 Nick Carter, Singer (Backstreet Boys), turns 32 1981 Elijah Wood, Actor (“Lord of the Rings” movies), turns 31
Historic Birthdays
Arthur Rubinstein 1/28/1887 – 12/20/1982 Polish-American virtuoso pianist.Go to obituary »
52 Henry VII 1/28/1457 – 4/21/1509
English King63 Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1/28/1841 – 5/10/1904
English/American explorer43 William Seward Burroughs 1/28/1855 – 9/15/1898
American inventor78 Franklin Hooper 1/28/1862 – 8/14/1940
American editor in chief of Encyclopedia Britiannica.81 (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette 1/28/1873 – 8/3/1954
French writer78 Auguste Piccard 1/28/1884 – 3/24/1962
Swiss-bn. Belgian physicist, balloonist, deep sea diver55 Ernst Lubitsch 1/28/1892 – 11/30/1947
German/American film director68 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale 1/28/1903 – 4/1/1971
British crystallographer44 Jackson Pollock 1/28/1912 – 8/11/1956
American painter80 Virgilio Ferreira 1/28/1916 – 3/1/1996
Portuguese teacher and novelist
"…Slight Me Not Wholly, Nor Believe Me Too Presumptuous…"
Hendecasyllabics by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O you chorus of indolent reviewers,
Irresponsible, indolent reviewers,
Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem
All composed in a metre of Catullus,
All in quantity, careful of my motion,
Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him,
Lest I fall unawares before the people,
Waking laughter in indolent reviewers.
Should I flounder awhile without a tumble
Thro’ this metrification of Catullus,
They should speak to me not without a welcome,
All that chorus of indolent reviewers.
Hard, hard, hard it is, only not to tumble,
So fantastical is the dainty meter.
Wherefore slight me not wholly, nor believe me
Too presumptuous, indolent reviewers.
O blatant Magazines, regard me rather –
Since I blush to belaud myself a moment –
As some rare little rose, a piece of inmost
Horticultural art, or half-coquette-like
Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.
