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Only a few prefer liberty — the majority seek nothing more than kind masters.
— Sallust
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Today is Tuesday, October 25th, the 298th day of 2022. There are 67 days left in the year. It is Punk For a Day Day, Chucky, the Notorious Killer Doll Day, National Greasy Foods Day, National I Care About You Day, MDS World Awareness Day, and World Pasta Day.
On This Day
In 1760, King George III succeeded to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
In 1812, the American frigate USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captured the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
In 1854, the Battle of Balaclava took place during the Crimean War. It was soon memorialized in verse by Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade.
In 1920, after 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, died.
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was named the first black general in the United States Army.
In 1962, Adlai Stevenson showed the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
In 1983, the United States and its Caribbean allies invaded Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup.
In 1993, Time put Eddie Vedder on its cover, with the headline, “All The Rage.” Both Vedder and Kurt Cobain refused to speak with the magazine for the story, which attempted to explain why young people were listening to angry music.
In 2001, Microsoft released the operating system Windows XP.
In 2010, Indonesia’s Mount Merapi began a monthlong series of violent eruptions that killed 353 people.
Today's Birthdays
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Bobby Knight is 82. Voice actress Nancy Cartwright is 65. National Baseball Hall of Famer Pedro Martínez is 51. Chess grandmaster Ray Robson is 28.
The Links
HBO’s ‘38 At The Garden’ Is One Big Lie Of Omission About Asian Hate (D. Dowd Muska)
“Lin didn’t learn much about U.S. history at Harvard, evidently. The bias and brutality Asians had to overcome in past centuries is a testament to their undaunted tenacity and America’s national progress in putting prejudice in its rearview mirror.”
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