today in history archives

1773 The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.
1895 The first performance of King Arthur took place at the Lyceum Theatre.
1896 Dr. Henry Louis Smith takes the first X-ray photograph in U.S. history. The photograph is of a hand with a bullet in it.
1915 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1932 Arkansas democrat Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1948 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
1949 "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV.
1966 "Batman" debuts on television.
1966 President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
1971 "All in the Family" debuts on television.
1991 The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.
1998 Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2000 A cloud of troubled times hanging over the Smashing Pumpkins grows darker when manager Sharon Osbourne severs all ties with the Chicago rock quartet. In a statement, Osbourne says, ``It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons - [Pumpkins frontman] Billy Corgan was making me sick!''
1999 Elton John files suit in London against Price Waterhouse Coopers, the accountancy firm, and Andrew Haydon, a former managing director of John Reid Enterprises, his former management company, over an alleged shortfall of 20 million pounds from his business empire.
1998 Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The eighth show goes clean in about an hour, precipitating the addition of the ninth show.
1995 The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, the late Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Al Green, Neil Young, the Orioles and the late Frank Zappa are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1992 A child is born to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and model Jerry Hall. Daughter Georgia May Ayeesha is the third child for the couple and the fifth for Jagger.
1991 Country music singer Johnny Paycheck is released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven year sentence for a barroom shooting. Before leaving office, Gov. Richard Celeste commutes the singer's sentence.
1984 Motley Crue opens its first U.S. tour at Madison Square Garden, New York.
1974 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Joker,'' Steve Miller Band.
1963 Bob Dylan is given the part of a folk singer on a BBC radio play, ``The Madhouse on Castle Street.''
1957 Elvis Presley records ``All Shook Up'' at a Hollywood studio.
1953 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes,'' Perry Como.
1940 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit, ``South of the Border (Down Mexico Way),'' Shep Fields Orchestra.

Positive Quote

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

-- Thomas N. Carruther

Daily Motivator

Do the math
Lasting success is achieved by addition and multiplication, not subtraction or division. If your winning depends on causing someone else to lose, that success is doomed to eventually run out. By contrast, when your success is built by creating new value for the world around you, it can continue to grow indefinitely.

Do the math. When you continue subtracting and dividing, you soon reach the very real limit of zero. But you can continue adding and multiplying with no such limit.

Certainly it is a competitive world. Yet the most successful competitors are those who do not depend on the competition, those who make the whole pie bigger instead of fighting over a single slice.

Real success and real value can never be wrested away from another. Your success and fulfillment must be built by you. Focus on the competition, and that competition will throw obstacles in your path at every turn. Focus on creating new value, and the world will enthusiastically push you forward.

Word of the Day

CAVIL
Definition:
to raise trivial objections
Example:
Because of the members' tendency to CAVIL endlessly over trivialities, they seldom accomplished anything noteworthy.
Synonyms:
quibble, carp

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