hamartia \hah-mahr-TEE-uh\, noun:
- Tragic flaw.
Hamartia stems from the Greek word hamartánein which meant "to err." However, it entered English in the late 1800s.
debate smile
- The forced smile that a person in a spotlighted position adopts in reaction to an opponent's attack during a verbal spar as a way to save face in front of an audience and to keep the mood seemingly friendly.
Senator Biden flashed his debate smile when Governor Palin accused him of voting for a federal tax increase.
- universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
- World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
- Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
- Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
- Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president
Birthdays
- Mary Ludwig 1754
- Rudolf Virchow 1821
- Wilbur Shaw 1902
- Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
- Cornel Wilde 1915
- Burr Tillstrom 1917
- Laraine Day 1920
- Yves Montand 1921
- Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
- Nipsey Russell 1924
- Lenny Bruce 1925
- Frank D. Gilroy 1925
- Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
- Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
- Shirley Caesar 1928
- Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
- Cliff Gorman 1936
- Melinda Dillon 1939
- Paul Simon 1941
- Pamela Tiffin 1942
- Jerry Jones 1943
- Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
- Karen Akers 1945
- Demond Wilson 1946
- Lacy J. Dalton 1946
- Sammy Hagar 1947
- John Lone 1952
- Beverly Johnson 1952
- Marie Osmond 1959
- John Wiggins 1962
- Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
- Kelly Preston 1962
- T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
- Kate Walsh 1967
- Rhett Akins 1969
- Nancy Kerrigan 1969
- Tisha Campbell 1970
- Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
- Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
- Katia Winter 1983
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989
- Tiffany Trump 1993
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