1967, and was one of only two horses to have been a member of the
American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Hall of Fame as well as
being an offspring of members. Easy Jet won the 1969 All American
Futurity, the highest race for Quarter Horse racehorses, and was named
World Champion Quarter Race Horse in the same year. He earned the
highest speed rating awarded at the time—AAAT. After winning 27 of his
38 races in two years of racing, he retired from the race track and
became a breeding stallion. As a sire, or father, he was the first All
American Futurity winner to sire an All American Futurity winner, and
went on to sire three winners of that race, and nine Champion Quarter
Running Horses. Ultimately, his ownership and breeding rights were split
into 60 shares worth $500,000 each—a total of $30 million. By 1993,
the year after his death, his foals had earned more than $25 million on
the racetrack. Easy Jet was of sorrel color, a light yellowish-red. He
stood about 15.3 hands high (63 inches; 160 cm) and had a large star
and a stripe on his face.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Jet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to
secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the
Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America>
1955:
Cardiff (Cardiff City Hall pictured) was proclaimed as the
capital of Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff>
1968:
The Zodiac Killer murdered the first of his five confirmed
victims in Vallejo, California, a case which remains unsolved.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer>
1988:
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances governing international
cooperation against the illegal drug trade was signed in Vienna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances>
1995:
As per the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the
NATO-led IFOR began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_Force>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deracinate:
1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms..
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deracinate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an
infinite number of Circles... For even a Sphere — which is my proper
name in my own country — if he manifest himself at all to an
inhabitant of Flatland — must needs manifest himself as a Circle.
--Edwin Abbott Abbott
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott>
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