who plays for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association
(NBA). He signed for the Heat (his eighth NBA team) in 2010, reaching
the playoffs for the sixth time and making his first career NBA Finals
appearance. Howard won his first NBA championship with Miami the
following year. A one-time All-Star and one-time All-NBA power forward,
he began his NBA career as the fifth overall pick in the 1994 NBA Draft
by the Washington Bullets. Before he was drafted, he starred as an All-
American on the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. At Michigan
he was part of the Fab Five recruiting class of 1991 that twice reached
the finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's
Division I Basketball Championship. During his rookie year with the
Bullets, he became the first player to graduate on time with his class
after leaving college early to play in the NBA. After one season as an
All-Rookie player and a second as an All-Star and an All-NBA performer,
he became the first NBA player to sign a $100 million contract. He has
developed a reputation as a humanitarian for his civic commitment.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juwan_Howard>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of
the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of
Vicksburg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg>
1869:
One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto
Takeaki turned over Goryōkaku to Japanese forces, signaling the
collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo>
1927:
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off a
series of explosives in Bath Township, Michigan's elementary school,
which had a final death toll of 45 and is the deadliest mass murder in a
school in United States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster>
1944:
World War II: Polish forces under Lieutenant General
Władysław Anders captured Monte Cassino, Italy, after a four-month
battle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino>
1955:
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000
Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French
Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of
the First Indochina War, ended.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom>
1980:
The stratovolcano Mount St. Helens erupted (pictured), killing
57 people in southern Washington State, reducing hundreds of square
miles to wasteland, and causing over US$1 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
upend:
1. (transitive) To end up; to set on end.
2. To tip or turn over.
3. To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upend>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never
accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into
something that he can understand.
--Bertrand Russell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell>
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