politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910.
He began his political career in the Legislative Assembly of the
Northwest Territories. When the province of Alberta was created,
Rutherford was asked to form its first government, and then won the 1905
election. The apparatus of provincial government was established under
Rutherford, and Edmonton was controversially selected as Alberta's
capital over Calgary. The government faced labour unrest in the coal
mining industry, and established a commission to examine the problem. It
also tried to encourage the development of new railways. Early in 1910,
William Henry Cushing's resignation as Minister of Public Works
precipitated the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, which
turned many of Rutherford's Liberals against his government. He was
forced to resign. He later became chancellor of the University of
Alberta, whose earlier founding had been a personal project. A
University of Alberta library, an Edmonton elementary school, and Mount
Rutherford are named in his honour. His home, Rutherford House, is now a
museum.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cameron_Rutherford>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1579:
Our Lady of Kazan (pictured), a holy icon of the Russian
Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day
Tatarstan, Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Kazan>
1709:
Great Northern War: Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of
Sweden in Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in
Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava>
1889:
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most
circulated business daily newspaper, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal>
1947:
After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying
disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel in Roswell, New Mexico, the
military stated that what was actually recovered was debris from an
experimental high-altitude surveillance weather balloon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident>
1994:
Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il became the Supreme
Leader of North Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
maw:
1. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the
mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.
2. Any great, insatiable or perilous opening.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maw>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Come to the bridal chamber, Death, Come to the mother's,
when she feels, For the first time, her first born's breath; Come, when
the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded
cities wail its stroke: Come in consumption's ghastly form, The
earthquake shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and
warm With banquet song and dance and wine; And thou art terrible: —
the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or
dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has
won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And
in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
--Fitz-Greene Halleck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fitz-Greene_Halleck>
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