during the American Revolutionary War. After serving in Virginia's
Provincial forces in the French and Indian War and later as Sheriff of
Bute County, North Carolina, he became a strident Patriot, and was
elected to North Carolina's Provincial Congress. He was named the
commanding officer of the 3rd North Carolina Regiment in the Continental
Army in 1776, seeing action in the Southern theater and Philadelphia
campaign. One of five brigadier generals from North Carolina, he served
with distinction in the battles of Stono Ferry and Eutaw Springs, but
recurring bouts of poor health often forced him to play an
administrative role, or to convalesce back home. Following a drastic
reduction in the number of North Carolinians serving with the
Continental Army, Sumner became a general in the state's militia, but
resigned in protest after the state Board of War awarded overall command
of the militia to William Smallwood, a Continental Army general from
Maryland. In 1783 Sumner helped establish the state chapter of the
Society of the Cincinnati, and became its first president. He died in
1785 with extensive landholdings.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Sumner>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
410:
Rome was sacked for the first time in 800 years, by the
Visigoths under Alaric I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)>
1456:
The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first
major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible>
1821:
The Treaty of Córdoba was signed in Córdoba, Veracruz,
ratifying the Plan of Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence
from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_C%C3%B3rdoba>
1941:
Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4
euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings
continued in secret for the remainder of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4>
2012:
American cyclist Lance Armstrong was banned from all
competitions and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the
United States Anti-Doping Agency for using illicit performance-enhancing
drugs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
resplendence:
The property of being, or that which causes something to be,
resplendent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resplendence>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I would encourage people to look around them in their community
and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in,
even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty
people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that
when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large
numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And
that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. …
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if
they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a
vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they
do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of
energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are,
then change takes place.
--Howard Zinn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn>
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