He was the eighth Governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both
the U.S. House and Senate. Adair participated in the Revolutionary War
and the Northwest Indian War, and was elected to eight terms in the
Kentucky House of Representatives. He ascended to the U.S. Senate to
fill the seat vacated by John Breckinridge's resignation, but failed to
win the subsequent election due to his implication in the Burr
conspiracy. He was eventually acquitted of any wrongdoing, but the
negative publicity kept him out of politics for more than a decade.
Adair's participation in the War of 1812, and his defense of Kentucky's
soldiers against charges of cowardice at the Battle of New Orleans,
restored his reputation. He returned to the state House in 1817 and was
elected governor three years later on a platform of financial relief for
Kentuckians hit hard by the Panic of 1819. He created the Bank of the
Commonwealth, but other financial reforms were deemed unconstitutional
by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, touching off the Old Court – New
Court controversy. He later served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adair>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
475:
Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to
flee Constantinople.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiliscus>
1816:
Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp, a safety lamp
containing a candle for use in coal mines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_lamp>
1909:
Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the
British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km) from the South Pole, the
furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthest_South>
1972:
The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association
lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the
longest of any team in American professional sports.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers>
2004:
Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their
inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to
Brindisi, Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaburun_tragedy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carpe diem:
Seize the day, make the most of today, enjoy the present.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carpe_diem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on
the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
--Simone de Beauvoir
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir>
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