Monday, February 28, 2022

Monday, February 28, 2022

quixotic \kwik-SOT-ik\, adjective:
  1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
  2. Capricious; impulsive; unpredictable.
Quixotic refers to the eccentric, generous idealism of Don Quixote, the hero of a satiric romance by Miguel de Cervantes.
 
No stalk

  • Phrase used before one inadvertently says something that sounds stalkerish on Facebook.
Carter: "No stalk but I noticed you changed your quotes on your profile. I love Hunter S Thompson too!"
Jane: Okaaay.
 
History
  • Methodism: Anglican clergyman and evangelist John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church (1784)
  • Shanghai Communiqué: US President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued a document advancing normalization between the two countries (1972)
  • M*A*S*H: the final episode — "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" — aired; it was the top-rated TV episode in the US (1983)
  • Olof Palme: the Swedish prime minister and his wife were shot in Stockholm; he was killed, she survived (1986)
  • Waco siege: 51-day standoff began with a gun battle between federal agents and members of the cloistered Branch Davidian sect; the agents were attempting to arrest leader David Koresh on a weapons charge (1993)
Birthdays
  • Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College)
  • Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator
  • Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope.
  • Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright
  • Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
  • Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father
  • Earl Scheib 1907
  • Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
  • Billie Bird 1908
  • Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor
  • Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band)
  • Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director
  • Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
  • Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions
  • Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin
  • Stanley Baker 1927 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone")
  • Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player
  • Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
  • Don Francks 1932 - Actor
  • Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer
  • Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
  • Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti
  • Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer
  • Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
  • Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones)
  • Poul Popiel 1943
  • imagebam.comDonnie Iris 1943
  • Barbara Acklin 1944
  • Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
  • Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player
  • Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress
  • Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player
  • Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob")
  • Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer
  • Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player
  • Roland Harper 1953 - Football player
  • Adrian Dantley 1955 - Basketball player
  • Gilbert Gottfried 1955 - comedian
  • John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan")
  • Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's)
  • Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42)
  • Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress
  • Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House")
  • Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train)
  • Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress
  • Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player
  • FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer
    Ali Larter 1976 - Actress
  • Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996
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