who in 2015 became the 12th American Triple Crown winner, and the first
since Affirmed in 1978. He also became the only horse to win the
Breeders' Cup Classic along with all three Triple Crown races—the
Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. He was bred and
owned throughout his racing career by Ahmed Zayat's Zayat Stables,
trained by Bob Baffert, and ridden in most of his races by Victor
Espinoza. After the Belmont, he easily won the Haskell Invitational on
August 2. On August 29, he finished a close second at Travers Stakes at
Saratoga Race Course, snapping a winning streak of eight races. After a
layoff of two months, he shipped to Keeneland for the 2015 Breeders' Cup
and contended in the Breeders' Cup Classic, where he challenged older
horses for the first time and won by 6 1⁄2 lengths, breaking the
track record. He was retired at the conclusion of his 2015 racing year
and now stands at stud at Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pharoah>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult
of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First
Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being>
1824:
Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No.
9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode
to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in
Vienna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)>
1920:
Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops,
with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be
driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Offensive_(1920)>
1946:
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the Tokyo
Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which later changed its name
to Sony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony>
2007:
A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of 1st
century BC ruler of Judea Herod the Great.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lady who lunches:
(chiefly in the plural) A lady who is affluent and thus able to have
lunch with other such ladies in relatively expensive restaurants.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lady_who_lunches>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of
receiving it as guest.
--Rabindranath Tagore
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore>
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