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Provided by the compucert knell \NEL\, verb:
- The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
- To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
From the Old English cnyll, cnell, "the sound of bells."
"I was supposed to take her out for dinner but I stayed with me mates at the pub and boy did she give a right thumb lashing."
Trivia
Who is the only Tony Award winner whose parents also won Tonys'twice each?
- Amanda Plummer, who won Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1982 for Agnes of God. Her father, Christopher Plummer, won Best Actor in a Musical for Cyrano (1974) and Best Actor in a Play for Barrymore (1997). Her mother, Tammy Grimes, won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1961) and Best Actress in a Play for Private Lives (1970).
- 19th Amendment: was ratified, giving US women the right to vote (1920)
- Lolita: controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel, about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, was published (1955)
- Virginia Dare (1587-?): first child born to English parents on American soil; she disappeared along with entire colony from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825): composer and music teacher of students such as Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt - Roman Polanski (75): Oscar-winning director, The Pianist and child rapist hiding out from his US convictions in France, possible zombie
- Patrick Swayze (56): dancer and actor who starred in Dirty Dancing and Ghost; actors Robert Redford (71), Martin Mull (64), Denis Leary (51), Madeleine Stowe (50), Craig Bierko (44) and Christian Slater and Edward Norton (both 39) were also born on this date
- Bob Woodruff (47): broadcast journalist
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