arete noun: 1. Virtue or excellence, especially the realization of one's potential. 2. A sharp, narrow mountain ridge.
☰Thought of the Day
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs." - Thomas Hardy, from Far from the Madding Crowd
- Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
- Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
- Doctors at Bethesda Naval hospital remove two small benign polyps from US President Ronald Reagan's colon
- Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Craig Stadler wins his first of two Champions Tour major titles by three strokes over Tom Kite, Jim Thorpe, and Tom Watson
- Violent protests and looting following the jailing of Jacob Zuma leave 337 dead in South Africa, with more than 200 shopping malls set on fire
- Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, born in Moscow (d. 1837)
- Andrew Pryce Jackman, British progressive rock keyboardist, arranger, and composer (The Syn), born in England (d. 2003)
- Helena Fibingerová, Czech athlete (World C'ship gold shot put 1983; Olympic bronze 1976; 3 x WR), born in Víceměřice, Czechoslovakia
- Violeta Dinescu, Romanian pianist, composer (Tabar), and music professor, born in Bucharest, Romania
- Ridge Canipe, American actor (Walk the Line; A Single Man; Music Within), born in Laguna Beach, California