Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

Thursday, Nov. 1

305th day of the year

"For when the One Great Scorer comes

To write against your name, 

He marks — not that you won or lost —  

But how you played the game." — Grantland Rice

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." — John Adams

Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France (877-79)

1815 — Douglas Hancock Cooper, brigadier general (Confederate Army); died in 1879

1825 — Joseph Benjamin Palmer, brigadier general (Confederate Army); died in 1890

1871 — Stephen Crane, novelist and poet ("The Red Badge of Courage")

1880 — Grantland Rice, sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)

1935 — Gary Player, golfer

1942 — Larry Flynt, Hustler magazine

1957 — Lyle Lovett singer

1972 — Jenny McCarthy, hottie

Pompei buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius

1512 — Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel first exhibited to the public

1604 — "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, first presented at Whitehall Palace in London

1765 — Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies

1800 — U.S. President John Adams moves into the White House and becomes the first president to live there

1834 — First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)

1879 — Thomas Edison executes his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898)

1894 — Russian Emperor Alexander III dies

1917 — In World War I, the first US soldiers are killed in combat

1947 — The famous racehorse Man o’ War dies

1950 — Charles Cooper becomes the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association

1952 — The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb, at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands

1959 — Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, becomes the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask

1962 — "The Lucy Show" premieres

1999 — Walter Payton, U.S. football player (No. 34, Chicago Bears), dies at 45

[OCT. 31, 2001]  It’s on the radio, TV, in all the media. You hear it in the office, on the street and maybe at home — threats of terrorism. America is on high alert. Here in central Illinois, away from any supposed practical target areas, perhaps we feel a little less threatened, but we are still concerned. So how concerned should we be, and how prepared are we for the types of situations that could occur?

Whether the threat is domestic or foreign, violent, biological or chemical, our public health and rescue agencies have been preparing to respond to the situations. Lincoln Daily News has been at meetings where all the agencies gather together as the Logan County Emergency Planning Committee to strategize for just such a time. Our reports have not even provided every detail that every agency has reported; i.e., a number of representatives from differing agencies such as the health and fire departments, CILCO and ESDA went to a bioterrorism and hazmat (hazardous materials) seminar this past August.

Here are some of the articles that LDN has posted pre- and post-Tuesday, Sept. 11. Hopefully you will see in them that WE ARE WELL PREPARED. At least as much as any area can be. Every agency has been planning, training, submitting for grants to buy equipment long before Sept. 11. We can be thankful for all of the dedicated, insightful leaders we have in this community.

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• LEPC hears plans for annual exercise

• U.S. under terrorist attack
  How is Logan County affected?

• The day after ‘Attack on America’
  Area leaders respond to national tragedy

• ESDA and LEPC conduct successful hazardous materials exercise at water treatment plant 

• Logan County ready for action if terrorist event occurs - Part 1

• Logan County ready for action if terrorist event occurs – Part 2

• Clinton nuclear power plant safety measures in place

• Logan County agencies meet to discuss protocol for suspicious mail

Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

Wednesday, Oct. 31

303rd day of the year

"Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen!" — Martin Luther

"Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success." — John Keats

1795 — John Keats, London, England, romantic poet ("Ode to a Grecian Urn")

1835 — J.F.W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel, 1905)

1887 — Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, president of Nationalist China

1912 — Dale Evans, Uvalde, Texas, cowgirl ("The Roy Rogers Show")

1920 — Dick Francis, Wales, jockey and novelist ("Whip Hand," "High Stakes")

1922 — Barbara Bel Geddes, New York City, actress ("Vertigo," Miss Ellie in "Dallas," "Caught")

1931 — Dan Rather, Wharton, Texas, news anchor ("CBS Evening News," "60 Minutes")

834 — First All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints

1517 — Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church door; beginning of Protestant Reformation

1541 — Michelangelo Buonarroti paints "Last Judgment" in Sistine Chapel

1846 — Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, constructs a winter camp

1926 — Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit

1941 — Mount Rushmore sculpture is completed

1983 — George Halas, NFLer, dies at 88

1984 — Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards

Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

302nd day of the year

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!" — Dostoevsky

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do." — Mussolini

1821 — Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist and writer of short stories

1882 — William "Bull" F. Halsey, U.S. vice admiral (World War II, Pacific)

1893 — Charles Atlas, body builder

1918 — Ted Williams, Red Sox hitter (AL MVP 1946, ’49; Triple Crown ’42, ’47)

1921 — Charles Bronson, actor ("The Magnificent Seven," "The Dirty Dozen," "Death Wish")

1933 — Michael S. Dukakis, Massachusetts governor, presidential candidate (Democrat, 1988)

1949 — Larry Holmes, boxer, heavyweight champ (1978-85)

1866 — Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington, Mo. ($2,000)

1888 — In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim

1888 — First ballpoint pen patented

1905 — "October Manifesto"; Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties

1922 — Mussolini forms government in Italy

1938 — Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "The War of the Worlds"

1944 — Anne Frank (of diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1945 — U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing

[OCT. 29, 2001]  It was same date, Oct. 26; same place, Logan County Courthouse lawn; same names; same clubs; and probably the same attitude, accomplished; as it was 95 years ago for the unveiling of the Indian maiden fountain. Perhaps the only difference was that the weather may have been a little warmer that day on Friday, Oct., 26, 1906, when Lincoln Woman’s Club, Judge McCormick and Lincoln High School Glee Club spoke and sang before a large crowd. This time the 40-degree temps with the brisk wind were a sure reminder that winter is just around the corner.

[Click here to see more pictures]

Wendy Bell, director of Main Street Lincoln, announced that the dedication was going to follow much of the same format as it was for the sculpture’s first unveiling.

Bell introduced Burnetta "Bernie" DePuy from the Lincoln Woman’s Club, who pioneered much of the fund-raising for the statue restoration. The efforts began in 1995 to raise the needed funds to restore and refurbish the beloved statue. It was the Lincoln Woman’s Club that initialized the original statue. DePuy recalled the original requirements of a public property sculpture: "Any sculpture was not only to be a piece of art, but it had to be functional and useful, as well as educational." The Indian maiden filled all requirements. It was functional and useful as a fountain to provide refreshment for people and additionally so with a lower trough for pets. It was educational, as the Indian maiden was intended to remind us we are a nation of many people, including the Indians who were here first.

DePuy, who is credited with bringing this project to fruition, thanked the many who have contributed to the restoration, including sculptor David Seagram, former Sen. Robert Madigan, Dick Logan from Logan County Board, the former and present members of the Main Street board, including Kate Orr and the many citizens who have contributed to cover the costs of restoration. DePuy included in her remarks that this has "truly been a community affair."

To the delight of the audience, DePuy was recognized with a gift for her tireless efforts on the project — a custom-made, artist-signed clay cast of the formerly missing hand from the statue. With some chuckles she accepted her gift charmingly, saying, "Thank you!"

Same words, song and attitude

Present at the first dedication was Judge McCormick. To read his very same words in his stead on this day was his great-great-nephew Tim McCormick. McCormick read the following from an original newspaper account:

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Judge McCormick made a very appropriate speech of acceptance. He said in part:

"It is all together fitting that this useful and ornamental piece of statuary should be built, donated and dedicated to the public service as a companion piece to this handsome and magnificent building we here behold outlined against the sky. In accepting this most generous gift on behalf of Logan County let me express to its generous givers the thanks and appreciation of all our people. May no vandal dare with wantoned hand ever marr its sacred beauty or polute its crystal base. May the virtues, lives and motives of its givers and of those whose pleasure it is to receive and care heretofore be ever as pure as the limpid waters that issue forth from its fount to quench the thirst of the weary pilgrim within our gates."

The original sculptor was Charles Mulligan. His great-nephew John and wife Sharon Mulligan were also present for the ceremony. They videotaped the event to send to the sculptor’s great-niece who was the model for the papoose. She now lives in Florida.

The Indian maiden now sits facing the Arcade on Pulaski Street rather than on the Kickapoo Street side. As the refurbished statue was unveiled, the Lincoln Community High School chorale sang "America" just as the Glee Club did 95 years ago.

If you go inside the Logan County Courthouse, you will find an abundance of assorted marble lining the walls of the corridors. Some of the trim has a pinkish marbled appearance. It is this same stone the Indian maiden is carved from. The marble comes from Tennessee. The original statue cost $800.

[Jan Youngquist]

[OCT. 29, 2001]  Lincoln College student groups will help the Lincoln/Logan County food bank by donating items they receive from their second annual Trick or Canning event.

Lincoln College students will go "trick or canning" on Wednesday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in and around the Mayfair subdivision in Lincoln. They are not in search of candy, but canned goods and non-perishable items. All items will be donated to the Lincoln/Logan County food bank.

Student groups helping with the event include Student Activities, Operation Big Help Workers (LC’s student volunteer program) and Student Admissions Ambassadors.

Angie Whiteman, director of student activities, is helping organize the event and says she expects to collect over 100 pounds of food. "Last year we canvassed the area around campus and collected about 50 pounds of food. This year we’ve set our goal at 100, and hopefully with the help of the people of Lincoln we can meet that goal," she said.

[News release]

Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

Monday, Oct. 29

301st day of the year

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons.... If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair.... We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." — Joseph Goebbels

"But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend." — Sir Walter Raleigh

1656 — Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley’s comet)

1884 — Bela Lugosi, horror actor ("Dracula," "Body Snatcher")

1897 — Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist

1940 — John Gotti, Mafia head

1947 — Richard Dreyfuss, Brooklyn, N.Y., actor ("Jaws," "Nuts")

1948 — Kate Jackson, Birmingham, Ala., actress ("Rookies," "Charlie’s Angels")

B.C. — Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia

1618 — Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason

1911 — Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, S.C.

1929 — "Black Tuesday" stock market crash  triggers Great Depression

1942 — Alaska Highway completed

1966 — National Organization of Women founded

[OCT. 27, 2001]  Melanie Riggs, Lincoln’s deputy city clerk, has received the 2001 Presidential Award from the Central Illinois Municipal Clerks Organization for her "effort, time and level of participation ... beyond the norm."

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[Joan Crabb]

[OCT. 27, 2001]  The following letter was received by the Lincoln Police Department commending the performance of city officers in regard to an unusual situation and its eventual resolution.

Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

Saturday, Oct. 27

299th day of the year

Quotes

"There can be no 50-50 Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them... well, I have others." — Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Birthdays

1728 — James Cook, Scotland, captain and explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands

1858 — Theodore Roosevelt, (Republican) 26th president (1901-09), (Nobel, 1906)

1872 — Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)

1894 — Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi general of labor

1901 — Marlene Dietrich, German actress and entertainer ("Angel")

1939 — John Cleese, comedian and actor ("Monty Python," "Fawlty Towers")

1940 — Lee Greenwood, country singer ("God Bless the USA")

Events

B.C. — Marcus Brutus, assassinated Julius Caesar, dies in Rome

625 — Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic pope

1775 — U.S. Navy established

1919 — U.S. Congress passes Volstead Act

1938 — DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

1941 — Chicago Daily Tribune editorializes there will not be war with Japan

1947 — "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio

1978 — Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace Prize

1997 — U.S. releases a redesigned $50 bill

Sunday, Oct. 28

300th day of the year

Quotes

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." — Dr. Jonas Salk

"Tell The Truth" — Instruction sent by telegram from Grover Cleveland to his campaign committee, which had been asked to comment on his fathering an illegitimate child.

Birthdays

1810 — Brig. Gen. Adley H. Gladden, Louisiana, killed at Shiloh

1914 — Dr. Jonas Salk, New York City, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past

1926 — Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)

1936 — Charlie Daniels, country music star ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia")

1949 — Bruce Jenner, U.S. decathalete (Olympic gold-medal winner, 1976)

1955 — Bill Gates, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)

Events

1492 — Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba

1636 — Harvard University (Boston) established

1704 — John Locke, English philosopher ("Two Treatises of Government"), dies at 72

1776 — Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to New Jersey

1793 — Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin

1886 — Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City

1904 — St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints

1962 — Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

1965 — Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis, Mo.

[OCT. 26, 2001]  Official trick or treat time for Lincoln youngsters is 5 to 8 p.m. on Halloween, Wednesday, Oct. 31, according to Alderman Verl Prather, chairman of the city’s police committee.

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[Joan Crabb]

[OCT. 26, 2001]  The children of the village of Elkhart will be treated to a "Scare Day in the Park" from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27.

[News release]

[OCT. 26, 2001]  After numerous revisions, the Logan County Board voted 12-1 Thursday night to approve a 2002 budget with a $313,238 deficit in the general fund. The final vote to adopt this budget will come at the November board meeting, but Finance Committee Chairman Rod White cautioned that any changes after the budget is reprinted would be prohibitively expensive. "I would ask that this vote hold" in November, White said.

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[Lynn Shearer Spellman]

Today’s history

Compiled by Dave Francis

Friday, Oct. 26

298th day of the year

Quotes

"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely." — Leon Trotsky

"Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract." — Hillary Clinton

Birthdays

1855 — Charles Post of breakfast cereal fame

1879 — Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (president of first Soviet)

1916 — Francois Mitterand, Jarnac, France, president of France (1981-1995)

1917 — Felix the Cat, cartoon character

1919 — Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, shah of Iran (1941-79)

1946 — Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host ("Wheel of Fortune," "Pat Sajak Show")

1947 — Jaclyn Smith, Houston, Texas, actress ("Charlie’s Angels," "Nightkill")

1947 — Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady (1993-2001)

Events

1492 — Lead pencils first used

1774 — First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia

1774 — Minute Men organized in colonies

1787 — "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution

1825 — Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened

1863 — Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva

1949 — President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents

1964 — Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

1970 — "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

1972 — Igor Sikorsky, Russian-U.S. helicopter builder, dies

1985 — On a poor call in sixth game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the 82nd World Series

As promised, the United States led an attack on Afghanistan. The attack began Sunday, Oct. 7. American and British military forces made 30 hits on air defenses, military airfields and terrorist training camps, destroying aircraft and radar systems. The strike was made targeting only terrorists.

More than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East have pledged their cooperation and support the U.S. initiative.

Online news links

Other countries

Afghanistan

http://www.afghandaily.com/ 

http://www.myafghan.com/  

http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/ 

China

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/

Germany

http://www.faz.com/

India

http://www.dailypioneer.com/ 

http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 

http://www.timesofindia.com/ 

Israel

http://www.jpost.com/ 

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ 

England

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/

Pakistan

http://www.dawn.com/

http://frontierpost.com.pk/ 

Russia

http://english.pravda.ru/

http://www.sptimesrussia.com/ 

Saudi Arabia

http://www.arabnews.com/ 

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United States

Illinois

http://www.suntimes.com/index/ 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/ 

http://www.pantagraph.com/ 

http://www.qconline.com/ 

http://www.pjstar.com/

http://www.sj-r.com/ 

http://www.herald-review.com/

http://www.southernillinoisan.com/ 

New York

http://www.nypost.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

Stars and Stripes
(serving the U.S. military community)

http://www.estripes.com/ 

Washington, D.C.

Announcements

[OCT. 29, 2001]  The schedule for railroad crossing closings in downtown Lincoln to allow Union Pacific to install new crossings has been set, according to Donnie Osborne, street superintendent. In order for five crossings to be repaired yet this year, two will be closed at one time, but they will not be adjacent, he said. Each closing will be for one week only, unless weather conditions delay the work.

• Pekin and Clinton streets — Closed week of Oct. 29

• Decatur and Pulaski streets — Closed week of Nov. 5

• Broadway Street — Closed week of Nov. 12

[Joan Crabb]

[OCT. 12, 2001]  The city landfill on Broadwell Drive will be open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for leaf and brush disposal, beginning on Oct. 15, according to Donnie Osborne, street superintendent. Plans are to keep the new schedule in place until Dec. 15, he said. 

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