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# Zadock Taft House

The Zadock Taft House is a historic house at 115 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Probably built in the 18th century, it received its present Greek Revival styling in the 1840s or 1850s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

## Description and history

The Zadock Taft House stands south of the center of Uxbridge, on the west side of South Main Street just north of its junction with Newell Road. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior brick chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. A single-story porch extends across the front facade. The building corners are pilastered, and the main entrance is framed by sidelight windows, pilasters and a corniced entablature. Windows are rectangular sash, with slightly capped lintels above.
The land on which the house stands has a long association with the locally prominent Taft family. As early as 1708 it was the farm of Joseph Taft, who helped oversee construction of Uxbridge's first meetinghouse in 1728–30. It is unclear from the documentary record whether the present house is a surviving element of Joseph Taft's farm, or if it was built by a later 18th-century generation. It is shown on an 1855 map of the town in its present configuration. It was acquired in the 1860s by Zadock Taft, a great-grandson of Joseph, who owned several industrial concerns in the area, including a half interest in the Rivulet Mill Complex.
# Międzylesie, Wągrowiec County

Międzylesie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Damasławek, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
# Surekha Kadam

Surekha Kadam (Marathi: सुरेखा कदम) is Shiv Sena politician from Ahmednagar district. She is the former mayor of Ahmednagar.

## Positions held

* 2012: Elected as corporator in Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation
* 2016: Elected as Mayor of Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation in 2016
# Wildlife Reserve in Al Wusta

The Wildlife Reserve in Al Wusta, formerly the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, is a nature reserve in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills. In a much larger form, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, but in 2007 it became the first site to be removed from the World Heritage list. On June 28, 2007, the reserve was removed from the World Heritage Site register. UNESCO cited Oman's decision to reduce Arabian Oryx Sanctuary by 90% after oil had been found at the site, and the decline of the population of Arabian oryx (a kind of antelope) from 450 in 1996 to 65 in 2007 as a result of poaching and habitat destruction. At that time, only four mating pairs remained.
Species inhabiting the reserve also included the mountain gazelle, Nubian ibex, Arabian wolf, honey badger and caracal.
# Jarrod Patterson

Jarrod Zane Patterson (September 7, 1973 – March 11, 2020) was an American professional baseball third baseman. He was a graduate of Chilton County High School in Clanton, Alabama. He played during two seasons for Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals. He was drafted by the New York Mets in the 20th round of the 1993 MLB draft. Patterson played his first professional season with their Rookie League Gulf Coast Mets in 1993, and his last with the independent Northern League's Joliet Jackhammers, Schaumburg Flyers, Gary SouthShore RailCats in 2006. He played his last affiliated season for the Royals' Triple-A Omaha Royals in 2004.
Patterson died in an auto accident on March 11, 2020.
# Kennedy House and Mill

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The Kennedy House and Mill are historic buildings located at 306 NJ 173 near Pohatcong Creek in Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1996 for their significance in architecture, politics/government and industry. The area of Stewartsville, New Jersey is also called Kennedy Mills.
The two-story Kennedy House was built c. 1815–1825 of coursed rubble stone construction in a Federal architecture style. The two and one-half story gristmill, located along the Pohatcong Creek, is also of rubble stone construction.

## History

By 1786, Robert Kennedy (1733–1812) owned the property, partly through the inheritance of his wife Elizabeth from her father William Henry (1716–1756). The mill may have been operating as early as 1764. Kennedy served as a wagonmaster in the American Revolutionary War. He is buried in the nearby Greenwich Presbyterian Church Cemetery. After his death, most of the property was inherited by his son Robert Henry Kennedy (1787–1859). After his death, the property passed to his son Henry Robert Kennedy (1815–1884).
# Brooks Lawrence

Brooks Ulysses Lawrence (January 30, 1925 – April 27, 2000) was an American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954–1955), Cincinnati Redlegs (1956–1959), and Cincinnati Reds (1960).
Lawrence was born in Springfield, Ohio, and served in the US Army during World War II. He enrolled at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1947, and played two seasons of college baseball before being signed to a professional contract by the Cleveland Indians.
Lawrence's Major League debut came in 1954. As a 29-year-old rookie, Lawrence went 15–6 with a 3.74 ERA while starting and relieving for the St. Louis Cardinals. He struggled in 1955 and was demoted to Oakland (in the Pacific Coast League), but he went 5–1 down the stretch and earned a second chance with the big-league club.
Lawrence's best season came in 1956. Before that year, St. Louis sent Lawrence and Sonny Senerchia to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Jackie Collum. With the Reds that season, Lawrence posted a 19–10 record and a 3.99 ERA. He opened the season with 13 consecutive wins and earned a spot on the National League All-Star team. That year he led the Reds in wins, innings pitched and shutouts.
Lawrence's career came to a close in 1960, and he retired with an overall record of 69–62 with a 4.25 ERA in 1,040+2⁄3 innings pitched. Due largely to his 13-game winning streak and his association with the surprisingly successful 1956 Reds club, Lawrence earned induction into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1976.
After he retired from baseball, Lawrence worked for International Harvester in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio. He later worked for the Reds in scouting, minor-league player development, and radio and television.
Lawrence died on April 27, 2000.
# Air New Zealand Flight 24

Air New Zealand Flight 24 was hijacked on the tarmac at Nadi International Airport, Fiji on 19 May 1987. The flight, operated by a Boeing 747-200, was making a scheduled refuelling stop while en route from Tokyo Narita to Auckland. The hijacker boarded the aircraft and held the three flight crew members hostage, threatening to blow up the aircraft unless the deposed Fijian prime minister, Dr. Timoci Bavadra, and his 27 ministers who were being held under house arrest were released. The flight crew were eventually able to overpower the hijacker and hand him over to local police. There were no injuries or deaths reported, and the aircraft never left the tarmac.

## Hijacking

Flight TE24 was en route to Auckland from Tokyo when it made a scheduled refuelling stop in Nadi. Most of the passengers on this flight were Japanese. TE24 was standing on the tarmac refueling when Ahmjed Ali, armed with dynamite explosives from a gold mine, boarded the aircraft. Ahmjed Ali, then aged 37, an ethnic Indian who worked as a refueler for Air Terminal Services, entered the flight deck and told to the captain that he was carrying dynamite and would blow up the aircraft if his demands were not met.
Using the plane's radio, he demanded the release of the deposed Fijian prime minister, Dr. Timoci Bavadra, and his 27 ministers who were being held under house arrest by rebel leader Lt. Col. Sitiveni Rabuka in the 1987 Fijian coups d'état. Ali also demanded to be flown to Libya.
All 105 passengers and 21 of the 24 crew disembarked. Captain Graham Gleeson, flight engineer Graeme Walsh, and first officer Michael McLeay remained with Ali in the cockpit. For six hours, Ali talked with relatives in the Nadi tower and Air New Zealand negotiators in Auckland. Meanwhile, the New Zealand Special Air Service were placed on a state of "preparedness."
At around 1 p.m., while Ali was distracted with the radio, flight engineer Walsh hit him with a bottle of whiskey. The crew members were able to overpower Ali and handed him over to local police. He received a suspended sentence for taking explosives onto an aircraft.

## Aftermath

Following the incident, New Zealand's Prime Minister, David Lange, said that he was "grateful" the incident was over.
Ahmjed Ali later became a member of the House of Representatives of Fiji in 1999. In 2014, Ali confirmed to the Dominion Post that he has been granted permanent residency in New Zealand since 2009. Immigration New Zealand refused to comment on the circumstances regarding the granting of his resident status.
Gleeson has said that he did not condone the hijacking, but was sympathetic to Ali.
# Herb McCauley

W. Herbert McCauley (born May 2, 1957, in Durham, North Carolina) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who has been called "one of the most talented and aggressive riders of his generation" by John Piesen, an odds-maker for the New York Post and the Daily Racing Form.
While still a small boy, Herb McCauley began riding horses on his grandfather's farm. At age sixteen, he embarked on a career in Thoroughbred racing, breaking yearlings at William L. McKnight's Tartan Farms near Ocala, Florida. Within two years, McCauley moved north where he began his riding career at Monmouth Park Racetrack in New Jersey. In October 1975 he rode the first of his more than three thousand career winners at Keystone Racetrack in Philadelphia. For the next twenty-three years McCauley was a top jockey at tracks in the U.S. northeast and notably rode five winners from five mounts in a single racecard on November 18, 1985, at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
On July 10, 1998, Herb McCauley suffered compound fractures to the tibia and fibula of his left leg in an accident at Monmouth Park. The injury resulted in him undergoing four surgical proceedings followed by a lengthy rehabilitation process. With his career in ruins, McCauley's personal life suffered and he turned to alcohol in a misguided effort to cope. Having suffering from bulimia since his teens, in a May 1999 conference on the various disorders some athletes have to deal with, McCauley spoke publicly for the first time about his battle as a jockey to maintain riding weight that resulted in constant binging and purging.
Unable to ride, for a time McCauley served as an agent for jockeys but more than eight years after being sidelined he decided to attempt a comeback. Following an intense training program, in September 2007 he returned to riding competitively and a few weeks later earned his first win in nine years at Meadowlands Racetrack.
In 2007, Herb McCauley was nominated for induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
# 1875 in animation

Events in 1875 in animation.

## Events

* Specific date unknown:
** In 1875, the physiologist Sigmund Exner showed that, under the right conditions, people will see two quick, spatially separated but stationary electrical sparks as a single light moving from place to place, while quicker flashes were interpreted as motion between two stationary lights. Exner argued that the impression of the moving light was a perception (from a mental process) of the motion between the stationary lights as pure sense. This is an explanation of the optical illusion of illusory motion known as the beta movement. The illusion of motion caused by animation and film is sometimes believed to rely on beta movement, as an alternative to the older explanation known as persistence of vision.
** The French astronomer Pierre Janssen introduces the chronophotography instrument Janssen revolver to the Société Francaise de Photographie. Etienne-Jules Marey would later use Janssen's invention as the primary inspiration for his chronophotographic gun (1882), a precursor to the camcorder.The functioning of the chronophotographic gun is very similar to a normal rifle, with grip, canon and rotating drum, except that it does not carry bullets but photographic plates with which it caught the light at high speed.

## Births
### January

* January 5: J. Stuart Blackton, British-American silent film producer and director (co-founder of the film studio Vitagraph Studios, one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation, considered a father of American animation, directed the animated films The Enchanted Drawing, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, The Haunted Hotel, and The Humpty Dumpty Circus), (d. 1941).
* January 21: Paul E. Kahle, German orientalist, (discovered leather puppets near Damietta, Egypt which were used in medieval shadow plays, one of the precursors of silhouette animation), (d. 1964).

### June

* June 4: Albert E. Smith, English-American film director, film producer, and stage magician, (co-founder of the film studio Vitagraph Studios, producer of the animated short film The Humpty Dumpty Circus), (d. 1958).

### October

* October 31: Carl Edouarde, American composer (Steamboat Willie), (d. 1932).
# Miłaczewek

Miłaczewek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Malanów, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
# Miłaczewskie Młyny

Miłaczewskie Młyny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Malanów, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Malanów, 10 km (6 mi) south of Turek, and 117 km (73 mi) south-east of the regional capital Poznań.
# Zealandia (Asheville, North Carolina)

Zealandia is an historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1908, and is a three-story, "T"-plan, Tudor Revival style dwelling. It features a three-story porte cochere, projecting masses, steep gables, heavy wrought iron entrance gates, and massive chimneys.
In 1884, after thirty years of fortune-making in New Zealand, John Evans Brown returned to Asheville to build his dream castle atop Beaucatcher Mountain. Brown called his castle Zealandia. Completed in 1889, Zealandia is a pebbledash-on-brick enclosure modeled after Haddon Hall in England. Six years later, John Evans Brown died. Zealandia was sold to O.D. Revell in 1901.
In 1904, Sir Phillip S. Henry, an Australian born diplomat acquired Zealandia. Under Sir Henry, Zealandia flourished. The castle doubled in size with a granite addition and was filled with ancient and sacred relics. In 1919, Sir Henry commissioned an artist to paint a mural in the style of the fifteenth century Italian painter, Benozzo Gozoli. This mural, located in the old dining room, portrays family members and friends clad in classical robes, posing languidly with hounds, horses and flowers.
In 1930, Sir Henry opened a public museum on the grounds of Zealandia. An avid equestrian, Sir Henry also built an imposing Tudor-style stable for his horses. The stable was destroyed by fire in 1981. Zealandia passed to Violet Henry, Sir Henry's daughter, and her husband British General Hartley Maconochie.
After WWII, the Maconochie's attempts to sell Zealandia were futile. In 1950, portions of the original castle were dismantled for economic and safety reasons.
In 1976, the construction of Interstate 240 demolished part of Beaucatcher Mountain, including the structure that once housed the public museum. Despite fervid community protests and registration as a National Historic Place, the old museum fell.
Zealandia is not open to the public.
# Podanin

Podanin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodzież, within Chodzież County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Chodzież and 62 km (39 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań.
# Dinu Solanki

Dinubhai Boghabhai Solanki (born 1958), was a politician from Gir Somnath, Gujarat. Solanki won the Gujarat Legislative assembly seat from Kodinar in 2002 with a margin of 2,000 votes, and in 2009 was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha after defeating his Indian National Congress rival Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad by a margin of 1.8%.

## Biography

He had declared assets of nearly Rs. 20 million in 2009 He has a history of criminal charges and has complaints registered against him under Sections 323, 324, 325, 143, 147, 148, 149 and 504 of the IPC He also has a history of intimidating police officers investigating his criminal connections.
He has transport business with Ambuja Cements Ltd and many other business associated with Ambuja Cements Ltd.
According to the Times of India, Solanki controls local Kodinar municipality and other important bodies. In 2010, the ruling dispension congress has tried every penny to fabricate him. He has done many social work for the welfare of his community. He belongs to Karadiya Rajput community. The former MP was convicted in murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa and sentenced for life imprisonment by the Ahmedabad CBI court. After Solanki's supporters decided to contest as independent candidates, BJP suspended five of his supporters from the party for six years.
# Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits

The Under Secretary for Benefits (USB), in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, directs the Veterans Benefits Administration through regional offices in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. The Under Secretary is responsible for the administration of benefits provided by the Department to veterans and dependents, including compensation, pension, education, home loan guaranty, vocational rehabilitation, and life insurance.

## History

The Veterans Benefits Administration has been in existence since the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in October 1988, when it was led by a chief benefits director. In 1994, the title was changed to Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits.
Under Secretary Allison A. Hickey resigned in October 2015. On February 27, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Paul R. Lawrence to become the under secretary of veterans affairs for benefits. The nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 26, 2018 by Voice Vote. Mr Reeves was sworn in by SECVA on May 15, 2018. He resigned the post on January 20, 2021.
President Joe Biden nominated Raymond M. Jefferson to serve as the Undersecretary on March 21, 2022, but his nomination was withdrawn on July 11. After the nomination was withdrawn, Joshua Jacobs became the acting under secretary while serving as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, from July 25, 2022 to April 26, 2023. He replaced Thomas J. Murphy, who is the director of the Northeast District, Veterans Benefits Administration. Murphy served as acting Undersecretary twice during his career: from June 2016 through May 2018 and from January 2021 through July 2022.
On January 23, 2023, President Biden announced that he had nominated Jacobs to become the permanent USB. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate on April 26, 2023, and he started at the position on the same day.

## Role and responsibilities

The under secretary is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The occupant of the position is required to be appointed without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of his or her demonstrated ability in fiscal management and the administration of programs within the Veterans Benefits Administration or programs of similar content and scope. The Under Secretary is appointed for terms of four years, and reappointment is possible for successive periods. The president is required to communicate his reasons to Congress if the under secretary for Benefits is removed from office. Whenever there is a vacancy in the position, the secretary of veterans affairs must set up a commission to recommend to the President candidates for appointment.
# Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman

Alexander James Trotman, Baron Trotman (22 July 1933 – 25 April 2005) was a British-born businessman who was the CEO of Ford Motor Company from 1993 to 1998. Trotman was the first foreign-born chairman and CEO of a Big Three American automobile manufacturer.

## Life and career

Trotman was born on 22 July 1933 in Middlesex. He was educated at Boroughmuir School in Edinburgh, and after studying at the University of East London, received a Master's degree in business administration from Michigan State University in East Lansing, United States.
Trotman was a member of the Royal Air Force before joining Ford in 1955 as a management trainee in the United Kingdom. He was involved in the development of the Ford Cortina compact car there and was noticed by Henry Ford II. He came to the United States and earned a reputation for cost cutting. He became CEO of the company in November 1993 and remained in the position until he retired in December 1998. He was the first foreign-born CEO of the company, but was succeeded by Jacques Nasser of Australia.
One of Trotman's main contributions at Ford was the Ford 2000 initiative, launched in 1995. This was an attempt to unify and consolidate Ford's manufacturing, marketing and product development forces around the world. The initiative produced $5 billion in cost savings, and produced $7 billion in profits for Ford in 1997. Some people considered it a failure, however, as many of the resulting products (like the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique designs based on the European Ford Mondeo platform), were not very competitive in the American market in the long term, and the major restructuring was disruptive to the company. The inability of senior management to successfully implement this program in the mid- to late-1990s turned out to be a huge opportunity lost, one that Ford was still desperately trying to leverage under the leadership of Alan Mulally in 2007. Trotman retired in January 1999 after 43 years with Ford in a variety of positions throughout Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.
Trotman was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996 and was created a Life peer as Baron Trotman of Osmotherley in the County of North Yorkshire, on 2 March 1999 in recognition of his contributions to industry.
Trotman was a director of ICI from 1997 until 2003 and became Chairman in January 2002. He ranked number 865 on the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 with a net worth of £45m.
He died on 25 April 2005 in Yorkshire.
# Roberto José Dromi

Roberto José Dromi (11 April 1945 – 23 November 2024) was an Argentine politician and lawyer, who served as Minister of Public Works of Argentina during the administration of Carlos Menem. He also served as Mayor of Mendoza between 1981 and 1982. He's been referred to as an "Argentine treatise writer" by the World Bank.
He wrote the book Derecho Administrativo, published on August 1, 1998 by Ciudad Argentina.
Dromi was professor of administrative law in many universities of Argentina. He died on 23 November 2024, at the age of 79.
# Mniszki, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Mniszki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Międzychód, within Międzychód County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
# Senga dialect

Senga is a Tumbuka language spoken in Eastern Zambia in Chama district.
# Takahiro Sugiura

Takahiro Sugiura (杉浦敬宏, Sugiura Takahiro, born 4 October 1983) is a former Japanese rugby union player who played as a prop. He spent his whole career playing for Munakata Sanix Blues in Japan's domestic Top League, playing over 70 times. He was named as a backup player for Japan for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He did though make one appearance for Japan.