Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek will be sunny with a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 7:07 and sunset 8:13, for 11h 05m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize:
Oslo, Norway, Oct. 14–The Nobel Peace prize for 1964 was awarded today to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The 35-year-old civil rights leader is the youngest winner of the prize that Dr. Alfred Nobel instituted since the first was awarded in 1901.
The prize honors acts “for the furtherance of brotherhood among men and to the abolishment or reduction of standing armies and for the extension of these purposes.”
The Norwegian state radio changed its program schedule tonight to broadcast a 30-minute program in honor of Dr. King. In a broadcast from Atlanta, Ga., Dr. King said that he was deeply moved by the honor.
Dr. King said that “every penny” of the prize money, which amounts to about $54,000, would be given to the civil rights movement.
“I am glad people of other nations are concerned with our problems here,” he said. He added that he regarded the prize as a sign that world public opinion was on the side of those struggling for freedom and dignity.
He also said he saw no political implications in the award. “I am a minister of the gospel, not a political leader,” he said.
The Nobel Committee has a English-language page for each laureate, including Dr. King.
On this day in 1912, while campaigning as an independent candidate for president, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in Milwaukee:
On the night of October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee. Roosevelt was in Wisconsin stumping as the presidential candidate of the new, independent Progressive Party, which had split from the Republican Party earlier that year. Roosevelt already had served two terms as chief executive (1901-1909), but was seeking the office again as the champion of progressive reform. Unbeknownst to Roosevelt, a New York bartender named John Schrank had been stalking him for three weeks through eight states. As Roosevelt left Milwaukee’s Hotel Gilpatrick for a speaking engagement at the Milwaukee Auditorium and stood waving to the gathered crowd, Schrank fired a .38-caliber revolver that he had hidden in his coat.
Roosevelt was hit in the right side of the chest and the bullet lodged in his chest wall. Seeing the blood on his shirt, vest, and coat, his aides pleaded with him to seek medical help, but Roosevelt trivialized the wound and insisted on keeping his commitment. His life was probably saved by the speech, since the contents of his coat pocket — his metal spectacle case and the thick, folded manuscript of his talk — had absorbed much of the force of the bullet. Throughout the evening he made light of the wound, declaring at one point, “It takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose,” but the candidate spend the next week in the hospital and carried the bullet inside him the rest of his life.
Schrank, the would-be assassin, was examined by psychiatrists, who recommended that he be committed to an asylum. A judge concurred and Schrank spent the remainder of his life incarcerated, first at the Northern Hospital for the Insane in Oshkosh, then at Central State Hospital for the criminally insane at the state prison at Waupun. The glass Roosevelt drank from on stage that night was acquired by the Wisconsin Historical Museum. You can read more about the assassination attempt on their Museum Object of Week pages.
Here’s Puzzability‘s midweek game, from a series entitled, Series Cancellations:
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This Week’s Game — October 12-16
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Series Cancellations
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Let’s see what you can put together for this week’s TV viewing. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the full name of a current TV drama.
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Example:
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Macabre illustrator Edward / elf’s boss / rock opera by The Who
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Answer:
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Grey’s Anatomy (Gorey / Santa / Tommy)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the TV show’s name and the smaller words (as “Grey’s Anatomy (Gorey / Santa / Tommy)” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, October 14
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