antebellum \AN-tee-BEL-uhm\, adjective:
- before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar: the antebellum plantations of Georgia.
Antebellum entered English in the 1860s. It literally means "before the war" in Latin.
bedgasm
- A feeling of complete and utter euphoria which peaks when climbing into bed at the end of an 18-hour workday, a long road trip or hours of extremely strenuous physical activity. Under perfect conditions, the physical release has been likened to that of an intense sexual experience.
History
- Charles I: monarch of Great Britain and Ireland was beheaded for treason (1649)
- Mahatma Gandhi: nonviolent Indian political and spiritual leader was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu extremist; Gandhi had been working to promote Hindu-Muslim unity (1948)
- Tet Offensive: the Vietcong launched a series of surprise attacks (1968)
- The Beatles: performed as a group for the last time in public; they played for 45 minutes on the roof of their Apple Records studio (1969)
- Bloody Sunday: 14 civil rights protesters were shot to death by British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland (1972)
- Iraq: held its first free election in 50 years (2005)
Birthdays
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882
- Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa's Band) 1911
- David Wayne 1914
- John Ireland 1914
- Bennie Leighton 1921
- Gene Martin 1922
- Dick Martin 1922
- Barbara Hale 1922
- Dorothy Malone 1925
- Douglas Engelbart 1925
- Gene Hackman 1931
- Louis Rukeyser 1933
- Horst Jankowski 1936
- Boris Spassky 1937
- Vanessa Redgrave 1937
- Norma Jean 1938
- Dick Cheney 1941
- Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942
- Steve Marriott (Humble Pie & Small Faces) 1947
- William King (The Commodores) 1949
- Charles Dutton 1951Phil Collins 1951 drummer
- Brett Butler 1958
- Jody Watley 1959
- Christian Bale 1974
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