Daily Post — October 8, 2025 (History • Quote • Word)
🗓️ On This Day in History — October 8
- 1956 – Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Time and Date)
- 1948 – The world’s first internal pacemaker was implanted in a 43-year-old man named Arne Larsson. (Time and Date)
- 1919 – The first transcontinental air race began in the U.S.: 63 airplanes (15 from San Francisco and 48 from New York) took part in a 5,400-mile round trip. (Time and Date)
- 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire broke out, eventually destroying more than 17,000 buildings and killing hundreds. (Britannica)
- 1862 – The Battle of Perryville took place in Kentucky during the American Civil War, where Union forces repulsed the Confederate advance. (Library of Congress)
📜 Quote of the Day
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
— C. S. Lewis (Today’s A New Day)
Takeaway: When your character is tested, courage gives shape to all other virtues — honesty, kindness, integrity — by enabling them under pressure.
🔤 Word of the Day — tenacious (adj.)
Meaning: Holding fast; persistent, determined; stubbornly unyielding.
Use it:
- “She was tenacious in her pursuit of justice, refusing to abandon her case.”
- “The climber’s tenacious grip on the rock saved him from falling.”
Synonyms: persistent, resolute, stubborn, determined
Antonyms: yielding, irresolute, weak, tentative
