FYI September 19, 2020

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On This Day

1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
Washington’s Farewell Address is a letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to “friends and fellow-citizens” after 20 years of public service to the United States.[1] He wrote it near the end of his second term of presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.

The letter was first published as The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States in the American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, about ten weeks before the presidential electors cast their votes in the 1796 election. It is a classic statement of republicanism, warning Americans of the political dangers which they must avoid if they are to remain true to their values. It was almost immediately reprinted in newspapers throughout the country, and later in pamphlet form.[2]

The first draft was originally prepared by James Madison in June 1792, as Washington contemplated retiring at the end of his first term in office.[3] However, he set it aside and ran for a second term because of heated disputes between Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson which convinced Washington that the growing tensions would rip apart the country without his leadership. This included the state of foreign affairs, and divisions between the newly formed Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties.[4]

As his second term came to a close four years later, Washington prepared a revision of the original letter with the help of Hamilton to write a new farewell address to announce his intention to decline a third term in office. He reflects on the emerging issues of the American political landscape in 1796, expresses his support for the government eight years after the adoption of the Constitution, defends his administration’s record and gives valedictory advice to the American people.[5]

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Born On This Day

1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African-American permitted to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.

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FYI

Quartz Weekly Obsession: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The tiny giant of jurisprudence
 
 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020),[1] also known by her initials RBG, was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton and was generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. During her tenure on the Court, Ginsburg authored notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000).

Following O’Connor’s retirement in 2006 and until Sonia Sotomayor joined the Court in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, which were noted by legal observers and in popular culture.

Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She then earned her bachelor’s degree at Cornell University and became a wife to Martin D. Ginsburg and a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated tied for first in her class. Following law school, Ginsburg entered academia. She was a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.

Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning multiple arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsels in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her fiery liberal dissents and refusal to step down. She was playfully dubbed “The Notorious R.B.G.”, a reference to Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G.[2]

Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.[3][4]

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Kathryn’s Report:

 
 
Piper PA-22-135 Tri-Pacer, N8875C: Accident occurred September 14, 2020 near Homer Airport (PAHO), Alaska

Posted: 19 Sep 2020 08:29 AM PDT
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Anchorage, Alaska Aircraft crashed on beach after takeoff. https://registry.faa.gov/N8875CDate: 14-SEP-20Time: 00:32:00ZRegis#: N8875CAircraft Make: PIPERAircraft Model: PA22Event Type: ACCIDENTHighest Injury: MINORAircraft Missing: NoDamage: SUBSTANTIALActivity: PERSONALFlight Phase: TAKEOFF (TOF)Operation: 91City: HOMERState:
 
 
Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche, N7669Y: Accident occurred September 12, 2020 at Homer Airport (PAHO), Alaska

Posted: 19 Sep 2020 08:32 AM PDT
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Anchorage, Alaska Aircraft lost control on landing and veered off runway and up a bank. https://registry.faa.gov/N7669YDate: 12-SEP-20Time: 04:30:00ZRegis#: N7669YAircraft Make: PIPERAircraft Model: PA30Event Type: ACCIDENTHighest Injury: NONEAircraft Missing: NoDamage: SUBSTANTIALActivity: PERSONALFlight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
 
 
Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub, N416RK: Accident occurred September 12, 2020 at McCarthy Airport (PAMX), Alaska

Posted: 19 Sep 2020 08:06 AM PDT
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Anchorage, Alaska Aircraft on takeoff veered off the runway and hit trees. Windyfork LLChttps://registry.faa.gov/N416RKDate: 12-SEP-20Time: 03:15:00ZRegis#: N416RKAircraft Make: PIPERAircraft Model: PA18Event Type: ACCIDENTHighest Injury: NONEAircraft Missing: NoDamage: SUBSTANTIALActivity: PERSONALFlight Phase: TAKEOFF (TOF)
 
 
Cessna 170B, N3068A: Incident occurred September 13, 2020 in Kiana, Alaska

Posted: 19 Sep 2020 08:00 AM PDT
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Fairbanks, Alaska Aircraft lost power and control with wing impacting gravel bar. https://registry.faa.gov/N3068ADate: 13-SEP-20Time: 21:45:00ZRegis#: N3068AAircraft Make: CESSNAAircraft Model: 170Event Type: INCIDENTHighest Injury: NONEAircraft Missing: NoDamage: UNKNOWNActivity: PERSONALFlight Phase: UNKNOWN (UNK)Operation:
 
 
 
 
STORIES OF NORTHERN CANADA AND ALASKA: The Richest Woman in the Klondike
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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