Thursday, January 15, 2009

kinetic \ki-NET-ik\, adjective:

• of or having to do with motion; caused by motion

by 1864, from Greek kinetikos "moving, putting in motion," from kinetos "moved," verbal adjective of kinein "to move."
birthday

• The day I came out of a vagina

Trivia
Why were the Academy Award ceremonies postponed in 1968?

• For the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. The ceremonies were delayed on only two other occasions—following a devastating flood in Los Angeles in 1938, and after the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

Today in History:

• British Museum: opened to the public in Montague House in the Bloomsbury district of London (1759)
• Harper's Weekly: published an editorial cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in which he used a donkey to represent the Democratic party; he had meant for the animal to indicate an anti-war faction (1870)
• the Pentagon: opened; at the time, it was the world's largest office building (1943)
• Super Bowl I: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs (35-10) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967)

Today's Birthdays:

• Molière (1622-1673): playwright, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
• Edward Teller (1908-2003): the main architect of the hydrogen bomb
• Gamal Abdul Nasser (1918-1970): Egyptian president from 1954 to 1970
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): civil rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Eddie Cahill (31): actor, CSI: NY; other actors who share this birth date include Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998), James Nesbitt (44) and Chad Lowe (41)
• Gene Krupa (1909-1973), first drummer to be a superstar

Quote:

• "Primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band." — Buddy Rich