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Provided by the compucert gubernatorial \GOO-ber-nuh-TOR-ee-uhl\, adjective:
- Of or pertaining to a governor.
Gubernatorial is from Latin gubernator, "governor," from gubernare, "to govern," which is also the source of govern.
Today's History:
- Melbourne: Australian city named for British prime minister Lord Melbourne was founded (1835)
- Second Battle of Bull Run: in the US Civil War, the Confederates achieved a victory over Union forces (1862)
- Thurgood Marshall: was confirmed as the first black US Supreme Court justice (1967)
Today's Birthdays:
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851): author of Frankenstein
- Jacobus Hoff (1852-1911): first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; other Nobel Prize winners born on this date include Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), E. M. Purcell (1912-1997) and Sir Richard Stone (1913-1991)
- Warren Buffett (78): businessman and billionaire
- Jean-Claude Killy (65): champion skier; other sportsmen born on this date include Robert Parish (55), Shaun Alexander (31) and Andy Roddick (26)
- Cameron Diaz (36): actress, What Happens in Vegas; also, actors Bill Daily (81), Elizabeth Ashley (69), Peggy Lipton (62), Lewis Black (60), Timothy Bottoms (57), David Paymer (54), Michael Chiklis (45), Michael Michele (42) and Lisa Ling (35)
Word of the Day for Saturday, August 30, 2008
fop \FOP\, noun:
- A man who is overly concerned with or vain about his dress and appearance; a dandy.
Fop comes from Middle English fop, foppe, "a fool." The adjective form is foppish.
- Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
- Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
- Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
- Maria Montessori (1870-1952): educator, Montessori method
- William Saroyan (1908-1981): novelist/playwright, The Time of Your Life; other writers born on this date are Dore Schary (1905-1980), William Shawn (1907-1992), Daniel Schorr (92) and Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
- Frank Robinson (73): baseball hall-of-famer; NFL coach Tom Coughlin (62) also has a birthday today
- Itzhak Perlman (63): world-class violinist and promoter of disabled rights
- Richard Gere (59): actor, Pretty Woman, Chicago; also, actors Warren Berlinger (71), Deborah Gibson (38), Chris Tucker (36) and Sara Ramirez (33)
- Queen Rania (38): Jordan's queen, wife of Abdullah II
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