Monday, April 19, 2004

 

Spotlight: Topic of the Day: The first Boston Marathon was won by New Yorker John McDermott on this date in 1897. He finished the race in 2:55:10 (two hours, 55 minutes, 10 seconds).

Word of the day: ineluctable -- inevitable. Used yesterday by George Will: "Wednesday's policy flowed ineluctably from Bush's June 24, 2002, pronouncement ..." (column) (© )

Today's News:

• Spain -- pulling troops from Iraq (story)
• Muammar Qaddafi -- seeks drastic court, law reforms in Libya (story)
• Duke -- tries to aid sleep-deprived students (story)

Today's History:

• Shot heard round the world -- fired at Lexington Common, started the American Revolution (1775)
• uprising -- of some 1000 Jews living in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto, against fully-armed Nazi forces (1943)
• Oklahoma City Bombing -- truck bomb exploded outside a federal office building, killing 168 (1995)

Today's Birthdays:

• Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre -- Spanish mathematician, statesman, and Nobel Prize-winning dramatist (1832-1916)
• Getulio Vargas -- president of Brazil (1883-1954)
• Ashley Judd -- actress, member of the famous Judd family, turns 36