Post by farmgal on Nov 2, 2012 23:53:59 GMT -5
November 03 is the 308th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 58 days remaining until the end of the year.
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644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is martyred by a Persian slave in Medina.
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 The British Parliament passed the Supremacy Act, whereby Henry VIII and his successors to the English throne were declared “the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England.”
1631 English clergyman John Eliot, 27, first arrived in America, at Boston. He afterward became the first Protestant minister to devote himself to evangelization of the American Indian.
1643 In Boston, Samuel Gorton (1592–1677) and six others who had been extradited from Warwick, Rhode Island, were sentenced by the General Court of Massachusetts to confinement at hard labor for blasphemy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gorton
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana, a preliminary peace treaty is signed at Fountainbleau. France will lose Canada and will cede Louisiana to Spain to compensate for its loss of Florida to the English. Louisiana has been a burden on the French treasury and Spain seeks a buffer for its tenuously held Texas territory and mineral rich Mexico.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Territory
1777 General George Washington is informed that a conspiracy is afoot to discredit him with Congress and have him replaced by General Horatio Gates. Thomas Conway, who would be made inspector general of the United States less than two months later on December 14, led the effort.
Conway, who was born in Ireland but raised in France, entered the French army in 1749. He was recruited to the Patriot cause by Silas Deane, the American ambassador to France, and after meeting with Washington at Morristown in May 1777, he was appointed brigadier general and assigned to Major General John Sullivan's division.
Conway served admirably under Sullivan at the battles of Brandywine, in September 1777, and Germantown, in October 1777, before becoming involved in an unconfirmed conspiracy to remove General Washington from command of the Continental Army. The rumored conspiracy would go down in history as the "Conway cabal."
After the Continental Army suffered several defeats in the fall of 1777, some members of Congress expressed displeasure with Washington's leadership and Conway began writing letters to prominent leaders, including General Horatio Gates, that were critical of Washington. After Washington got wind of Conway's letter to General Gates, he responded with a letter to Congress in January 1778. Embarrassed, Conway offered his resignation in March 1778 by way of apology, and was surprised and humiliated when Congress accepted. After General John Cadwalader wounded him in a duel defending Washington's honor, Conway returned to France, where he died in exile in 1800.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#American_Revolution_.281775.E2.80.931783.29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Gates
1783 Washington orders the American Continental Army disbanded after the Treaty of Paris. A small residual force remained at West Point and some frontier outposts until Congress created the United States Army by their resolution of June 3, 1784.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#Demobilization
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, first arrived in America, at New York City. He was the first Methodist bishop to come to the New World.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(bishop)
1818 Pliny Fisk, 26, set sail for Palestine. Ordained by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Fisk became the first American missionary to journey to the Near East.
www.amazon.com/Memoir-Rev-Pliny-Missionary-Palestine/dp/B004G7UGMU
famousamericans.net/plinyfisk/
1838 Bound for the United States, the first groups of Saxons under Martin Stephan (1777–1846), St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany, left Bremerhaven on the Copernicus and the Johann Georg, the latter with C. F. W. Walther aboard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Stephan
1863 The first U.S. patent for an antifouling paint for ships' hulls was issued to J.G. Tarr and A.H. Wonson (No. 40515) for a copper oxide, tar and naptha mixture. They claimed that a ship's hull thus painted could have protection against growth of barnacle shells and seaweeds lasting "for a period of twelve months, while another vessel painted in the common manner and employed in the same trade became so foul in six weeks as to require scraping." They took out an anti-corrosion antifouling paint patent on 13 Jun 1865 (U.S. No.48221). Fouling of a ship's bottom was a serious problem because it increases drag and greatly reduces a ship's speed. A British antifouling paint patent was issued on 31 Aug 1625 to William Beale.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fouling_paint#History
1863 The first U.S. yeast preparation patent was issued to J.T. Alden of Cincinnati, Ohio (No. 40,451), for "an improvement in the preparation of yeast" which reduced concentrated yeast from a plastic or semi-fluid state to a dry granular form, a convenient way of preservation for future use. His process was to press the live yeast concentrate through a fine wire mesh to produce threads of the substance of about 1/8-inch square. When laid on drying racks, moisture rapidly evaporated because of the high surface area, leaving the dried yeast in a finely-divided state. The granular form avoided the grinding and crushing needed with using cake form dried yeast, which mechanically damaged the yeast cells, reducing the active yield.
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willis_Menard
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Grant#1868_presidential_campaign
1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)
1890 The temperature at Los Angeles, CA, reached 96 degrees, a November record for 76 years. (David Ludlum)
1892 The first automatic telephone exchange, using the switching device invented by Almon B. Strowger, (born 1839) opened to the public in LaPorte, Indiana, with about seventy-five subscribers. A considerable amount of ceremony was attached to the affair, with a special train run from Chicago and a brass band on hand to greet the guests. This early system did not use a dial to enter the desired number. Instead, using three keys, one for each digit of a three-digit number, a subscriber pressed each key the appropriate number of times for each digit. The first dial phones (with projecting vanes instead of holes) was used in Milwaukee's City Hall (1896). In the UK, the very first Strowger exchange opened at Epsom in Surrey in 1912.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#Election_of_1896
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama#.22Post-colonial.22_Panama
1903 Listerine was trademark registered. First formulated by Dr Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and became the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States in 1914.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listerine
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet#History
1913 The United States introduces an income tax.
1917 First class mail now costs $0.03
1918 As the First World War draws to a close, angry rebels in both Germany and Austria-Hungary revolt on November 3, 1918, raising the red banner of the revolutionary socialist Communist Party and threatening to follow the Russian example in bringing down their imperialist governments.
By the last week of October 1918, three of the Central Powers--Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire--were in talks with the Allies about reaching an armistice, while the fourth, Bulgaria, had concluded one in September. On October 28, 1,000 sailors in the German navy were arrested after refusing to follow orders from their commanders to launch a last-ditch attack against the British in the North Sea. After immobilizing the German fleet, the resistance soon spread to the German city of Kiel, where on November 3 some 3,000 sailors and workers raised the red flag of communism. The governor of Kiel, Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, called on naval officers loyal to the government to suppress the revolt; eight rebels were killed, but the general resistance continued.
Meanwhile, revolution was breaking out in Vienna as well as in Budapest, where the former Hungarian prime minister, Count Istvan Tisza, was assassinated on October 31 by members of the communist-led Red Guard. With its empire in shambles, the Austro-Hungarian government secured an armistice with the Allied powers on November 3, ending its participation in World War I. That same day in Moscow, at a mass rally in support of the Austrian rebels, the communist leader Vladimir Lenin declared triumphantly: "The time is near when the first day of the world revolution will be celebrated everywhere."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party
1925 The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance was organized at St. Louis, MO. It became the forerunner of a new denomination, established in 1932 as the Pentecostal Church, Inc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Church_International
1927 Somerset VT was deluged with 8.77 inches of rain to establish a 24 hour record for the state. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1929 25,000 people filled the Arena in Saint Louis in celebration of the quadricentennial of Luther's Small Catechism of 1529. There was a mass children's choir of 3,500 voices, and Walter A. Maier (1893–1950) was the preacher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%27s_Small_Catechism
1930 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens. It was only the third underwater vehicular tunnel constructed in the U.S. (after the Holland Tunnel between Jersey City, New Jersey and downtown Manhattan, New York City, New York and the Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda, California). The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was constructed of sections of steel tube floated into place and sunk into a trench dug in the river bottom. The tubes were then covered over in the trench by 4 to 20 feet of mud.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-Windsor_Tunnel
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1937 Underdog Maurice J. Tobin resoundingly defeats former governor and mayor James Michael Curley in a Boston mayoral election that shocks the political establishment.
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1941 "String of Pearls" was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Beginning in June 1938, Miller dominated the top spot on various popular music charts for more than a year, with "In the Mood" holding the top spot for more than fifteen weeks at the beginning of 1940. "Tuxedo Junction" took over, keeping Miller at number one into the summer. From 1939 to 1942, his band was featured three times a week during a broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes. On February 10, 1942, RCA Victor presented Miller with the first ever gold record for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_String_of_Pearls_(song)
1941 On this day in 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Mayala, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan's occupation of Indochina in 1940 and the implicit menacing of the Philippines (an American protectorate), with the occupation of the Cam Ranh naval base only eight miles from Manila. American retaliation included the seizing of all Japanese assets in the States and the closing of the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. In September 1941, Roosevelt issued a statement, drafted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that threatened war between the United States and Japan should the Japanese encroach any further on territory in Southeast Asia or the South Pacific.
The Japanese military had long dominated Japanese foreign affairs; although official negotiations between the U.S. secretary of state and his Japanese counterpart to ease tensions were ongoing, Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who would soon be prime minister, had no intention of withdrawing from captured territories. He also construed the American "threat" of war as an ultimatum and prepared to deliver the first blow in a Japanese-American confrontation: the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
And so Tokyo delivered the order to all pertinent Fleet commanders, that not only the United States—and its protectorate the Philippines—but British and Dutch colonies in the Pacific were to be attacked. War was going to be declared on the West.
1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
Koli Point
1943 World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmshafen#World_War_II
1944 World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising
1948 Dewey Defeats Truman banner headline appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. Harry Truman actually defeated Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency. The U.S. presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas Dewey.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman
1951 "Cold, Cold, Heart" by Tony Bennett topped the charts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold,_Cold_Heart
1952 Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas in Chester, N.Y. While a U.S. field naturalist near the Arctic, he had learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit. Freshly caught fish, when placed onto the Arctic ice in the frigid wind, froze solid almost immediately. In Sep 1922, he began a company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., to process chilled fish fillets at a plant near the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. On 3 Jul 1924, he organized the General Seafood Corporation, which began the frozen foods industry. Retail frozen foods began 6 Mar 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts at the "Springfield Experiment Test Market" which offered 26 different vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdseye_Frozen_Foods
1953 The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly and changed other rules. The rules committee restores the 1939 rule, which says a sacrifice fly is not charged as a time at bat. Also, the committee votes for "no gloves on the field rule." Hank Greenberg, who proposed the change, says "Aside from the possibility of hindering the play, gloves on the field look sloppy." The committee also makes a rule that any runner will be called out for deliberating running the bases backwards or even taking a lead off the base in the wrong direction. A new balk rule is instituted which gives the batter an option; if he gets a hit after a balk is called, he has the option of accepting the outcome of the pitch, instead of being limited to the advance of the runner(s).
1953 Nanette Fabray starred in the first color TV program to be sent coast to coast.
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
1956 "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley topped the charts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(song)
1956 "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe topped the charts. Bob Davie wrote this and played the honky-tonk piano. It was inspired by a popular music club in Dallas, Texas where the kids who weren't allowed in hung around outside a yellow door. Presumably "green door" sounded better. Jim Lowe was a DJ and Country singer who recorded this in an apartment in Greenwich Village. Backing vocals were by The High Fives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Door
1956 "Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
1957 Sam Phillips released "Great Balls of Fire", by Jerry Lee Lewis. Otis Blackwell, a prolific songwriter who wrote many hits for Elvis Presley, wrote this song. This song made the Top 5 of the Pop, R&B, and Country charts simultaneously with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Both hit #1 on the Country charts, and while this sold 5 million copies, which was less then its predecessor, it still charted higher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Balls_of_Fire
1957 Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_2
1960 "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" opened on Broadway. The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a musical play which tells the fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, whose husband made a fortune in the Colorado gold mines, and who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The music is by Meredith Willson and the book by Richard Morris. The Broadway production opened on November 3, 1960, and played 533 performances. The cast was headed by Tammy Grimes and Harve Presnell.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsinkable_Molly_Brown_(musical)
1962 "He's a Rebel" by the Crystals topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_a_Rebel
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain
1964 Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Voting_rights_debate
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President. Johnson's campaign preyed upon Goldwater's blunders, especially criticizing his nonchalance of nuclear weapons. Following his political hero FDR, Johnson proposed a new slogan for America, his "Great Society." In this plan, he proposed an activist approach to ensure a variety of new social programs. Goldwater's approach was highly antagonistic and Johnson benefited from this, swaying unsure Republican votes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#1968_presidential_election
1961 A rare November thunderstorm produced snow at Casper, WY. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. In some of the heaviest fighting seen in the Central Highlands area, heavy casualties are sustained by both sides in bloody battles around Dak To, about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
The 1,000 U.S. troops there were reinforced with 3,500 additional troops from the U.S. 4th Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade. They faced four communist regiments of about 6,000 troops. The climax of the operation came in a savage battle from November 19-22 for Hill 875, 12 miles southwest of Dak To. The 173rd was victorious, forcing the North Vietnamese to abandon their last defensive line on the ridge of Hill 875, but the victory was a costly one because the paratroopers suffered the loss of 135 men, 30 of whom died as a result of an accidental U.S. air strike on U.S. positions. In the 19 days of action, North Vietnam fatalities were estimated at 1,455. Total U.S. casualties included 285 killed, 985 wounded, and 18 missing.
During this battle, the North Vietnamese failed to achieve one of their main objectives, which was the destruction of an American unit. They came close, but the Americans, despite heavy losses, had achieved the true victory: they mauled three enemy regiments so badly that they were unavailable for the Tet Offensive that the Communists launched in late January 1968.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dak_To
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Turner_(placekicker)
1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority
1973 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
Mariner 10
1973 "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Train_to_Georgia
1975 Queen Elizabeth II opened the North Sea pipeline, Firth of Forth. The first oil was piped ashore from the North Sea at Peterhead, Scotland. From BP's "Forties Field" the pipe runs 110 miles along the seabed and then 130 miles to the oil refinery at Grangemouth. The field was discovered by the drilling rig Sea Quest in October 1970. Now, oil from the Forties reservoir is produced through some 55 producing wells which deviate by up to 65° from the vertical and fan out to 3 kilometres from each of several platforms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Levy#Greensboro_massacre
1979 Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Levy#Greensboro_massacre
1979 "Pop Muzik" by M topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Muzik
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia
1987 Twenty-one cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Columbus OH was their warmest reading of record for so late in the season. Showers and thundershowers associated with a tropical depression south of Florida produced 4.28 inches of rain at Clewiston in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera
1988 - A sharp cold front brought about an abrupt end to "Indian Summer" in the north central U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park WY, and winds in the mountains near the Washoe Valley of southeastern Wyoming gusted to 78 mph. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the south central U.S. Del Rio TX tied Laredo TX and McAllen TX for honors as the hot spot in the nation with a record warm afternoon high of 91 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Cold weather prevailed in the central U.S. Six cities in Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan, reported record low temperatures for the date. The low of 7 above zero at Marquette MI was their coldest reading of record for so early in the season. (The National Weather Summary)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
1996 Death of Abdullah Çatlý, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Aðar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%87atl%C4%B1
1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
2007 Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspends the Constitution, imposes a State of Emergency, and fires the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf
Births
1723 Samuel Davies, American Presbyterian leader and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), was born near Summit Ridge, New Jersey (d. 1761).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Davies_(Presbyterian_educator)
1757 Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(Cabinet_member)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin, (d 1836) American pioneer, known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States. The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County, Austin County, Austin Bayou, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Austin College in Sherman, as well as a number of K-12 schools are named in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fuller_Austin
1794 William Cullen Bryant, American romantic poet journalist, hymnwriter, long-time editor of the New York Evening Post (d 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant
1799 William Sprague III, also known as William III or William Sprague III (d 1856), politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Rhode Island, serving as Governor, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator. He was the uncle of William Sprague IV, also a Governor and Senator from Rhode Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_III
1816 Jubal Anderson Early (d 1894) lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Anderson_Early
1816 Calvin Fairbank (d 1898) American abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Fairbank
1845 Edward Douglass White, Jr. (d 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the Supreme Court majority in the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of segregation in the United States, though he did write for a unanimous court in Guinn v. United States (1915), which struck down many Southern states' grandfather clauses that disenfranchised blacks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Douglass_White,_Jr.
1854 Jokichi Takamine (d 1922) Japanese born, American biochemist and industrial leader who isolated the hormone produced in the adrenal gland that causes the body to respond to emergencies. This chemical was adrenalin (now called epinephrine) from the suprarenal gland (1901). This was the first pure hormone to be isolated from natural sources. He applied for and received a U.S. patent on the substance, and went on to make a fortune with his marketing of Adrenalin. In fact, the product that he marketed was not pure epinephrine, but a mixture of the hormone and its sibling compound, norepinephrine (or noradrenaline). It is now made synthetically. He also found takadastase, and played a key role in the introduction of phosphate fertilizer along with various other manufacturing and chemical industries. to Japan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokichi_Takamine
1862 Henry George, Jr. (d 1916) United States Representative from New York and son of American political economist Henry George (1839–1897).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George,_Jr.
1876 Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SS.CC. (d 1940) fifth and last vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. In addition to being the Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, he was titular bishop of Arabissus. He was the first bishop of Hawai‘i to have been raised in the Hawaiian Islands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Peter_Alencastre
1884 Joseph William Martin, Jr. (d 1968) Republican Congressman and Speaker of the House from North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He was notably the only Republican to serve as Speaker from 1931 until 1995.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_William_Martin,_Jr.
1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy (d 1986) American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K (K from "Koagulations-Vitamin" in German) and its chemical structure.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Adelbert_Doisy
1903 Walker Evans (d 1975) American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans
1908 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski (d 1990) Canadian American football player of Polish-Ukrainian descent. He was also a successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronko_Nagurski
1909 James Barrett Reston (d 1995), nicknamed "Scotty," was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with the New York Times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston
1915 Harold Baron Jackson American disk jockey and radio personality who broke a number of color barriers in American radio broadcasting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Jackson
1918 Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller Van Meter, Iowa, nicknamed the "Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob" and "Rapid Robert", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, and is currently the longest tenured living Hall of Famer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller
1918 Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington (d 2007) United States Army officer who was one of the first women to attain the rank of Brigadier General.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_P._Hoisington
1918 Russell Billiu Long (d 2003) American Democratic politician and Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Son of the flamboyant Louisiana governor and Senator Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long, who served about a year in the Senate following her husband's death. When Russell Long was elected in November 1948, he became the only person in U.S. history to have been preceded in the Senate by both his father and his mother.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Billiu_Long
1918 Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (d. 2002)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Riesner
1921 Charles Bronson (d 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Mr. Majestyk, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a police officer or gunfighter, often in revenge plot lines.
1930 Dennis James Kennedy (d 2007), better known as D. James Kennedy, American Christian broadcaster, church pastor, and founder of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was senior pastor from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries, the Westminster Academy in Ft. Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._James_Kennedy
1930 William Harvey "Bill" Dana retired NASA test pilot and astronaut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dana_(pilot)
1933 Michael Stanley Dukakis , (advisor to President Barack Obama), 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants of partly Vlach origin in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts history. He was the second Greek American governor in U.S. history after Spiro Agnew.
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1944 Thomas William "Tom" Shales American critic of television programming and operations. He is best-known as TV critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize. He also writes a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications.
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1949 Larry Holmes former professional boxer, grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, hence his boxing nickname, "The Easton Assassin." WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983, The Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1983 to 1985. He made twenty successful title defenses, second only to Joe Louis' twenty-five.
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1952 Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
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1953 Dennis Miller American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled radio program, nationally syndicated by Dial Global. In recent years, Miller has become known for his right leaning political opinions. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Miller Time," and previously appeared on the network's Hannity & Colmes in a segment called "Real Free Speech."
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644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is martyred by a Persian slave in Medina.
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 The British Parliament passed the Supremacy Act, whereby Henry VIII and his successors to the English throne were declared “the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England.”
1631 English clergyman John Eliot, 27, first arrived in America, at Boston. He afterward became the first Protestant minister to devote himself to evangelization of the American Indian.
1643 In Boston, Samuel Gorton (1592–1677) and six others who had been extradited from Warwick, Rhode Island, were sentenced by the General Court of Massachusetts to confinement at hard labor for blasphemy.
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1762 Spain acquires Louisiana, a preliminary peace treaty is signed at Fountainbleau. France will lose Canada and will cede Louisiana to Spain to compensate for its loss of Florida to the English. Louisiana has been a burden on the French treasury and Spain seeks a buffer for its tenuously held Texas territory and mineral rich Mexico.
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1777 General George Washington is informed that a conspiracy is afoot to discredit him with Congress and have him replaced by General Horatio Gates. Thomas Conway, who would be made inspector general of the United States less than two months later on December 14, led the effort.
Conway, who was born in Ireland but raised in France, entered the French army in 1749. He was recruited to the Patriot cause by Silas Deane, the American ambassador to France, and after meeting with Washington at Morristown in May 1777, he was appointed brigadier general and assigned to Major General John Sullivan's division.
Conway served admirably under Sullivan at the battles of Brandywine, in September 1777, and Germantown, in October 1777, before becoming involved in an unconfirmed conspiracy to remove General Washington from command of the Continental Army. The rumored conspiracy would go down in history as the "Conway cabal."
After the Continental Army suffered several defeats in the fall of 1777, some members of Congress expressed displeasure with Washington's leadership and Conway began writing letters to prominent leaders, including General Horatio Gates, that were critical of Washington. After Washington got wind of Conway's letter to General Gates, he responded with a letter to Congress in January 1778. Embarrassed, Conway offered his resignation in March 1778 by way of apology, and was surprised and humiliated when Congress accepted. After General John Cadwalader wounded him in a duel defending Washington's honor, Conway returned to France, where he died in exile in 1800.
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1783 Washington orders the American Continental Army disbanded after the Treaty of Paris. A small residual force remained at West Point and some frontier outposts until Congress created the United States Army by their resolution of June 3, 1784.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#Demobilization
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, first arrived in America, at New York City. He was the first Methodist bishop to come to the New World.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(bishop)
1818 Pliny Fisk, 26, set sail for Palestine. Ordained by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Fisk became the first American missionary to journey to the Near East.
www.amazon.com/Memoir-Rev-Pliny-Missionary-Palestine/dp/B004G7UGMU
famousamericans.net/plinyfisk/
1838 Bound for the United States, the first groups of Saxons under Martin Stephan (1777–1846), St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany, left Bremerhaven on the Copernicus and the Johann Georg, the latter with C. F. W. Walther aboard.
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1863 The first U.S. patent for an antifouling paint for ships' hulls was issued to J.G. Tarr and A.H. Wonson (No. 40515) for a copper oxide, tar and naptha mixture. They claimed that a ship's hull thus painted could have protection against growth of barnacle shells and seaweeds lasting "for a period of twelve months, while another vessel painted in the common manner and employed in the same trade became so foul in six weeks as to require scraping." They took out an anti-corrosion antifouling paint patent on 13 Jun 1865 (U.S. No.48221). Fouling of a ship's bottom was a serious problem because it increases drag and greatly reduces a ship's speed. A British antifouling paint patent was issued on 31 Aug 1625 to William Beale.
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1863 The first U.S. yeast preparation patent was issued to J.T. Alden of Cincinnati, Ohio (No. 40,451), for "an improvement in the preparation of yeast" which reduced concentrated yeast from a plastic or semi-fluid state to a dry granular form, a convenient way of preservation for future use. His process was to press the live yeast concentrate through a fine wire mesh to produce threads of the substance of about 1/8-inch square. When laid on drying racks, moisture rapidly evaporated because of the high surface area, leaving the dried yeast in a finely-divided state. The granular form avoided the grinding and crushing needed with using cake form dried yeast, which mechanically damaged the yeast cells, reducing the active yield.
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
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1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Grant#1868_presidential_campaign
1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)
1890 The temperature at Los Angeles, CA, reached 96 degrees, a November record for 76 years. (David Ludlum)
1892 The first automatic telephone exchange, using the switching device invented by Almon B. Strowger, (born 1839) opened to the public in LaPorte, Indiana, with about seventy-five subscribers. A considerable amount of ceremony was attached to the affair, with a special train run from Chicago and a brass band on hand to greet the guests. This early system did not use a dial to enter the desired number. Instead, using three keys, one for each digit of a three-digit number, a subscriber pressed each key the appropriate number of times for each digit. The first dial phones (with projecting vanes instead of holes) was used in Milwaukee's City Hall (1896). In the UK, the very first Strowger exchange opened at Epsom in Surrey in 1912.
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1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#Election_of_1896
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
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1903 Listerine was trademark registered. First formulated by Dr Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and became the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States in 1914.
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1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
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1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
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1913 The United States introduces an income tax.
1917 First class mail now costs $0.03
1918 As the First World War draws to a close, angry rebels in both Germany and Austria-Hungary revolt on November 3, 1918, raising the red banner of the revolutionary socialist Communist Party and threatening to follow the Russian example in bringing down their imperialist governments.
By the last week of October 1918, three of the Central Powers--Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire--were in talks with the Allies about reaching an armistice, while the fourth, Bulgaria, had concluded one in September. On October 28, 1,000 sailors in the German navy were arrested after refusing to follow orders from their commanders to launch a last-ditch attack against the British in the North Sea. After immobilizing the German fleet, the resistance soon spread to the German city of Kiel, where on November 3 some 3,000 sailors and workers raised the red flag of communism. The governor of Kiel, Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, called on naval officers loyal to the government to suppress the revolt; eight rebels were killed, but the general resistance continued.
Meanwhile, revolution was breaking out in Vienna as well as in Budapest, where the former Hungarian prime minister, Count Istvan Tisza, was assassinated on October 31 by members of the communist-led Red Guard. With its empire in shambles, the Austro-Hungarian government secured an armistice with the Allied powers on November 3, ending its participation in World War I. That same day in Moscow, at a mass rally in support of the Austrian rebels, the communist leader Vladimir Lenin declared triumphantly: "The time is near when the first day of the world revolution will be celebrated everywhere."
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1925 The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance was organized at St. Louis, MO. It became the forerunner of a new denomination, established in 1932 as the Pentecostal Church, Inc.
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1927 Somerset VT was deluged with 8.77 inches of rain to establish a 24 hour record for the state. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1929 25,000 people filled the Arena in Saint Louis in celebration of the quadricentennial of Luther's Small Catechism of 1529. There was a mass children's choir of 3,500 voices, and Walter A. Maier (1893–1950) was the preacher.
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1930 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens. It was only the third underwater vehicular tunnel constructed in the U.S. (after the Holland Tunnel between Jersey City, New Jersey and downtown Manhattan, New York City, New York and the Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda, California). The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was constructed of sections of steel tube floated into place and sunk into a trench dug in the river bottom. The tubes were then covered over in the trench by 4 to 20 feet of mud.
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1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1937 Underdog Maurice J. Tobin resoundingly defeats former governor and mayor James Michael Curley in a Boston mayoral election that shocks the political establishment.
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1941 "String of Pearls" was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Beginning in June 1938, Miller dominated the top spot on various popular music charts for more than a year, with "In the Mood" holding the top spot for more than fifteen weeks at the beginning of 1940. "Tuxedo Junction" took over, keeping Miller at number one into the summer. From 1939 to 1942, his band was featured three times a week during a broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes. On February 10, 1942, RCA Victor presented Miller with the first ever gold record for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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1941 On this day in 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Mayala, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan's occupation of Indochina in 1940 and the implicit menacing of the Philippines (an American protectorate), with the occupation of the Cam Ranh naval base only eight miles from Manila. American retaliation included the seizing of all Japanese assets in the States and the closing of the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. In September 1941, Roosevelt issued a statement, drafted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that threatened war between the United States and Japan should the Japanese encroach any further on territory in Southeast Asia or the South Pacific.
The Japanese military had long dominated Japanese foreign affairs; although official negotiations between the U.S. secretary of state and his Japanese counterpart to ease tensions were ongoing, Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who would soon be prime minister, had no intention of withdrawing from captured territories. He also construed the American "threat" of war as an ultimatum and prepared to deliver the first blow in a Japanese-American confrontation: the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
And so Tokyo delivered the order to all pertinent Fleet commanders, that not only the United States—and its protectorate the Philippines—but British and Dutch colonies in the Pacific were to be attacked. War was going to be declared on the West.
1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
Koli Point
1943 World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmshafen#World_War_II
1944 World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising
1948 Dewey Defeats Truman banner headline appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. Harry Truman actually defeated Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency. The U.S. presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas Dewey.
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1951 "Cold, Cold, Heart" by Tony Bennett topped the charts.
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1952 Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas in Chester, N.Y. While a U.S. field naturalist near the Arctic, he had learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit. Freshly caught fish, when placed onto the Arctic ice in the frigid wind, froze solid almost immediately. In Sep 1922, he began a company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., to process chilled fish fillets at a plant near the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. On 3 Jul 1924, he organized the General Seafood Corporation, which began the frozen foods industry. Retail frozen foods began 6 Mar 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts at the "Springfield Experiment Test Market" which offered 26 different vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats.
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1953 The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly and changed other rules. The rules committee restores the 1939 rule, which says a sacrifice fly is not charged as a time at bat. Also, the committee votes for "no gloves on the field rule." Hank Greenberg, who proposed the change, says "Aside from the possibility of hindering the play, gloves on the field look sloppy." The committee also makes a rule that any runner will be called out for deliberating running the bases backwards or even taking a lead off the base in the wrong direction. A new balk rule is instituted which gives the batter an option; if he gets a hit after a balk is called, he has the option of accepting the outcome of the pitch, instead of being limited to the advance of the runner(s).
1953 Nanette Fabray starred in the first color TV program to be sent coast to coast.
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
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1956 "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley topped the charts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(song)
1956 "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe topped the charts. Bob Davie wrote this and played the honky-tonk piano. It was inspired by a popular music club in Dallas, Texas where the kids who weren't allowed in hung around outside a yellow door. Presumably "green door" sounded better. Jim Lowe was a DJ and Country singer who recorded this in an apartment in Greenwich Village. Backing vocals were by The High Fives.
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1956 "Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
1957 Sam Phillips released "Great Balls of Fire", by Jerry Lee Lewis. Otis Blackwell, a prolific songwriter who wrote many hits for Elvis Presley, wrote this song. This song made the Top 5 of the Pop, R&B, and Country charts simultaneously with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Both hit #1 on the Country charts, and while this sold 5 million copies, which was less then its predecessor, it still charted higher.
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1957 Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_2
1960 "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" opened on Broadway. The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a musical play which tells the fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, whose husband made a fortune in the Colorado gold mines, and who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The music is by Meredith Willson and the book by Richard Morris. The Broadway production opened on November 3, 1960, and played 533 performances. The cast was headed by Tammy Grimes and Harve Presnell.
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1962 "He's a Rebel" by the Crystals topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_a_Rebel
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain
1964 Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Voting_rights_debate
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President. Johnson's campaign preyed upon Goldwater's blunders, especially criticizing his nonchalance of nuclear weapons. Following his political hero FDR, Johnson proposed a new slogan for America, his "Great Society." In this plan, he proposed an activist approach to ensure a variety of new social programs. Goldwater's approach was highly antagonistic and Johnson benefited from this, swaying unsure Republican votes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#1968_presidential_election
1961 A rare November thunderstorm produced snow at Casper, WY. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. In some of the heaviest fighting seen in the Central Highlands area, heavy casualties are sustained by both sides in bloody battles around Dak To, about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
The 1,000 U.S. troops there were reinforced with 3,500 additional troops from the U.S. 4th Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade. They faced four communist regiments of about 6,000 troops. The climax of the operation came in a savage battle from November 19-22 for Hill 875, 12 miles southwest of Dak To. The 173rd was victorious, forcing the North Vietnamese to abandon their last defensive line on the ridge of Hill 875, but the victory was a costly one because the paratroopers suffered the loss of 135 men, 30 of whom died as a result of an accidental U.S. air strike on U.S. positions. In the 19 days of action, North Vietnam fatalities were estimated at 1,455. Total U.S. casualties included 285 killed, 985 wounded, and 18 missing.
During this battle, the North Vietnamese failed to achieve one of their main objectives, which was the destruction of an American unit. They came close, but the Americans, despite heavy losses, had achieved the true victory: they mauled three enemy regiments so badly that they were unavailable for the Tet Offensive that the Communists launched in late January 1968.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dak_To
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Turner_(placekicker)
1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority
1973 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
Mariner 10
1973 "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Train_to_Georgia
1975 Queen Elizabeth II opened the North Sea pipeline, Firth of Forth. The first oil was piped ashore from the North Sea at Peterhead, Scotland. From BP's "Forties Field" the pipe runs 110 miles along the seabed and then 130 miles to the oil refinery at Grangemouth. The field was discovered by the drilling rig Sea Quest in October 1970. Now, oil from the Forties reservoir is produced through some 55 producing wells which deviate by up to 65° from the vertical and fan out to 3 kilometres from each of several platforms.
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1979 Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Levy#Greensboro_massacre
1979 "Pop Muzik" by M topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Muzik
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia
1987 Twenty-one cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Columbus OH was their warmest reading of record for so late in the season. Showers and thundershowers associated with a tropical depression south of Florida produced 4.28 inches of rain at Clewiston in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera
1988 - A sharp cold front brought about an abrupt end to "Indian Summer" in the north central U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park WY, and winds in the mountains near the Washoe Valley of southeastern Wyoming gusted to 78 mph. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the south central U.S. Del Rio TX tied Laredo TX and McAllen TX for honors as the hot spot in the nation with a record warm afternoon high of 91 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Cold weather prevailed in the central U.S. Six cities in Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan, reported record low temperatures for the date. The low of 7 above zero at Marquette MI was their coldest reading of record for so early in the season. (The National Weather Summary)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
1996 Death of Abdullah Çatlý, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Aðar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%87atl%C4%B1
1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
2007 Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspends the Constitution, imposes a State of Emergency, and fires the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf
Births
1723 Samuel Davies, American Presbyterian leader and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), was born near Summit Ridge, New Jersey (d. 1761).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Davies_(Presbyterian_educator)
1757 Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(Cabinet_member)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin, (d 1836) American pioneer, known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States. The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County, Austin County, Austin Bayou, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Austin College in Sherman, as well as a number of K-12 schools are named in his honor.
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1794 William Cullen Bryant, American romantic poet journalist, hymnwriter, long-time editor of the New York Evening Post (d 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant
1799 William Sprague III, also known as William III or William Sprague III (d 1856), politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Rhode Island, serving as Governor, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator. He was the uncle of William Sprague IV, also a Governor and Senator from Rhode Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_III
1816 Jubal Anderson Early (d 1894) lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Anderson_Early
1816 Calvin Fairbank (d 1898) American abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Fairbank
1845 Edward Douglass White, Jr. (d 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the Supreme Court majority in the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of segregation in the United States, though he did write for a unanimous court in Guinn v. United States (1915), which struck down many Southern states' grandfather clauses that disenfranchised blacks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Douglass_White,_Jr.
1854 Jokichi Takamine (d 1922) Japanese born, American biochemist and industrial leader who isolated the hormone produced in the adrenal gland that causes the body to respond to emergencies. This chemical was adrenalin (now called epinephrine) from the suprarenal gland (1901). This was the first pure hormone to be isolated from natural sources. He applied for and received a U.S. patent on the substance, and went on to make a fortune with his marketing of Adrenalin. In fact, the product that he marketed was not pure epinephrine, but a mixture of the hormone and its sibling compound, norepinephrine (or noradrenaline). It is now made synthetically. He also found takadastase, and played a key role in the introduction of phosphate fertilizer along with various other manufacturing and chemical industries. to Japan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokichi_Takamine
1862 Henry George, Jr. (d 1916) United States Representative from New York and son of American political economist Henry George (1839–1897).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George,_Jr.
1876 Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SS.CC. (d 1940) fifth and last vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. In addition to being the Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, he was titular bishop of Arabissus. He was the first bishop of Hawai‘i to have been raised in the Hawaiian Islands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Peter_Alencastre
1884 Joseph William Martin, Jr. (d 1968) Republican Congressman and Speaker of the House from North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He was notably the only Republican to serve as Speaker from 1931 until 1995.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_William_Martin,_Jr.
1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy (d 1986) American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K (K from "Koagulations-Vitamin" in German) and its chemical structure.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Adelbert_Doisy
1903 Walker Evans (d 1975) American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House
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1908 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski (d 1990) Canadian American football player of Polish-Ukrainian descent. He was also a successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronko_Nagurski
1909 James Barrett Reston (d 1995), nicknamed "Scotty," was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with the New York Times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston
1915 Harold Baron Jackson American disk jockey and radio personality who broke a number of color barriers in American radio broadcasting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Jackson
1918 Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller Van Meter, Iowa, nicknamed the "Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob" and "Rapid Robert", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, and is currently the longest tenured living Hall of Famer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller
1918 Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington (d 2007) United States Army officer who was one of the first women to attain the rank of Brigadier General.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_P._Hoisington
1918 Russell Billiu Long (d 2003) American Democratic politician and Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Son of the flamboyant Louisiana governor and Senator Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long, who served about a year in the Senate following her husband's death. When Russell Long was elected in November 1948, he became the only person in U.S. history to have been preceded in the Senate by both his father and his mother.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Billiu_Long
1918 Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (d. 2002)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Riesner
1921 Charles Bronson (d 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Mr. Majestyk, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a police officer or gunfighter, often in revenge plot lines.
1930 Dennis James Kennedy (d 2007), better known as D. James Kennedy, American Christian broadcaster, church pastor, and founder of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was senior pastor from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries, the Westminster Academy in Ft. Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._James_Kennedy
1930 William Harvey "Bill" Dana retired NASA test pilot and astronaut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dana_(pilot)
1933 Michael Stanley Dukakis , (advisor to President Barack Obama), 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants of partly Vlach origin in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts history. He was the second Greek American governor in U.S. history after Spiro Agnew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis
1944 Thomas William "Tom" Shales American critic of television programming and operations. He is best-known as TV critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize. He also writes a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shales
1949 Larry Holmes former professional boxer, grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, hence his boxing nickname, "The Easton Assassin." WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983, The Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1983 to 1985. He made twenty successful title defenses, second only to Joe Louis' twenty-five.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Holmes
1952 Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr
1953 Dennis Miller American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled radio program, nationally syndicated by Dial Global. In recent years, Miller has become known for his right leaning political opinions. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Miller Time," and previously appeared on the network's Hannity & Colmes in a segment called "Real Free Speech."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Miller
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1976 Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Shimabukuro
Deaths
0753 St. Pirminius, first abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Reichenau (located in modern Germany). His name endures today as author of a book entitled "Scarapsus," which is the earliest known writing to contain the Apostles' Creed as it is worded in its present form.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pirminius
1600 Richard Hooker, an Anglican priest and influential theologian whose emphases on reason, tolerance and inclusiveness considerably influenced the development of Anglicanism and who was the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker) of Anglican theological thought, died at Bishopsbourne, Kent (b. March 1554).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker
1794 Adolph Nussmann (b. Aug 1739, Münster, Westphalia), who laid foundations for the Lutheran church in North Carolina.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Nussmann
1926 Annie Oakley (b 1860), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet Oakley reputedly could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
1939 Waldemar Lindgren (b 1860) Swedish-born American economic geologist who was a leader in the science of ore deposition and the use of the petrographic microscope. He helped establish that veins of metal and similar deposits are created by hot solutions derived from molten rock below, not by water seepage from above. His interest in geology began as a youth from reading a book on mineralogy and a visit at the age of 10 to the west coast of Sweden where rocks are beautifully exposed. By the time he was 17 he had seen the mines of central Sweden and the famous old silver workings of Kongsberg in Norway. As a young mining geologist, he emigrated to America in Jun 1883, drawn by the rapidly growing mining industry of the Western United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Lindgren
1949 Solomon Robert Guggenheim (b 1861) American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Robert_Guggenheim
1964 John Henry Barbee (b 1905) American blues singer and guitarist. He was born William George Tucker in Henning, Tennessee, and changed his name with the commencement of his recording career to reflect his favorite folk song, "The Ballad of John Henry".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Barbee
1986 E. Cuyler Hammond (b 1912) Scientist who was the first to link smoking with lung cancer. In 1957, while research director of the American Cancer Society, Hammond told congressional investigators that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases. "Evidence that smoking is a serious health hazard has been accumulating slowly since about 1915," he said, and that recent studies have produced "overwhelming" evidence that cigarette smoking "is a causative factor of great importance in the occurrence of lung cancer." He continued that there has been an "alarming trend in the death rates from lung cancer," with the number of deaths rising from 2,500 in 1930 to an estimated 29,000 in 1956.
www.nytimes.com/1986/11/04/obituaries/dr-e-cuyler-hammond-dies-linked-smoking-and-disease.html
1990 Mary Virginia Martin (b 1913) American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Virginia_Martin
1994 Ralph (Walter Graystone) Wyckoff (b 1897) American scientist, a pioneer in the application of X-ray methods to determine crystal structures and one of the first to use these methods for studying biological substances. He became famous in two areas of structural research: X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. He developed a new technique of 'metal shadowing' for observation with the electron microscope. A specimen, such as a virus, is placed in a vacuum together with a heated tungsten filament covered with gold. Vaporized gold coated the side of the specimen nearest the filament, leaving a 'shadow' on the far side. This allowing better estimates to be made of their size and shape, as well as revealing details of their structure.
2006 Marie Rudisill (b 1911), also known as the Fruitcake Lady, was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on The Tonight Show on American television. She was an aunt to novelist Truman Capote (his mother, Lillie Mae Faulk, was her elder sister). Rudisill helped to raise Capote, who lived with her at times during his childhood, both in Alabama and New York City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rudisill
Christian Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Greek Orthodox Church)
Hubertus
Malachy O' More
Martin de Porres
Rupert Mayer
Winefride
November 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Acepsimas of Hnaita, the bishop (376), Joseph the presbyter (377), and Aeithalas the deacon (377), of Persia
Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions, at Sebaste (320)
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus contested around the year 330 CE. Persian Christians who confessed their faith before Shapur II, the king. Their confession inspired the conversion of 7000 Persians before they were burned to death. Two churches in Constantinople are named in their honor.
1976 Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Shimabukuro
Deaths
0753 St. Pirminius, first abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Reichenau (located in modern Germany). His name endures today as author of a book entitled "Scarapsus," which is the earliest known writing to contain the Apostles' Creed as it is worded in its present form.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pirminius
1600 Richard Hooker, an Anglican priest and influential theologian whose emphases on reason, tolerance and inclusiveness considerably influenced the development of Anglicanism and who was the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker) of Anglican theological thought, died at Bishopsbourne, Kent (b. March 1554).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker
1794 Adolph Nussmann (b. Aug 1739, Münster, Westphalia), who laid foundations for the Lutheran church in North Carolina.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Nussmann
1926 Annie Oakley (b 1860), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet Oakley reputedly could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
1939 Waldemar Lindgren (b 1860) Swedish-born American economic geologist who was a leader in the science of ore deposition and the use of the petrographic microscope. He helped establish that veins of metal and similar deposits are created by hot solutions derived from molten rock below, not by water seepage from above. His interest in geology began as a youth from reading a book on mineralogy and a visit at the age of 10 to the west coast of Sweden where rocks are beautifully exposed. By the time he was 17 he had seen the mines of central Sweden and the famous old silver workings of Kongsberg in Norway. As a young mining geologist, he emigrated to America in Jun 1883, drawn by the rapidly growing mining industry of the Western United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Lindgren
1949 Solomon Robert Guggenheim (b 1861) American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Robert_Guggenheim
1964 John Henry Barbee (b 1905) American blues singer and guitarist. He was born William George Tucker in Henning, Tennessee, and changed his name with the commencement of his recording career to reflect his favorite folk song, "The Ballad of John Henry".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Barbee
1986 E. Cuyler Hammond (b 1912) Scientist who was the first to link smoking with lung cancer. In 1957, while research director of the American Cancer Society, Hammond told congressional investigators that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases. "Evidence that smoking is a serious health hazard has been accumulating slowly since about 1915," he said, and that recent studies have produced "overwhelming" evidence that cigarette smoking "is a causative factor of great importance in the occurrence of lung cancer." He continued that there has been an "alarming trend in the death rates from lung cancer," with the number of deaths rising from 2,500 in 1930 to an estimated 29,000 in 1956.
www.nytimes.com/1986/11/04/obituaries/dr-e-cuyler-hammond-dies-linked-smoking-and-disease.html
1990 Mary Virginia Martin (b 1913) American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Virginia_Martin
1994 Ralph (Walter Graystone) Wyckoff (b 1897) American scientist, a pioneer in the application of X-ray methods to determine crystal structures and one of the first to use these methods for studying biological substances. He became famous in two areas of structural research: X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. He developed a new technique of 'metal shadowing' for observation with the electron microscope. A specimen, such as a virus, is placed in a vacuum together with a heated tungsten filament covered with gold. Vaporized gold coated the side of the specimen nearest the filament, leaving a 'shadow' on the far side. This allowing better estimates to be made of their size and shape, as well as revealing details of their structure.
2006 Marie Rudisill (b 1911), also known as the Fruitcake Lady, was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on The Tonight Show on American television. She was an aunt to novelist Truman Capote (his mother, Lillie Mae Faulk, was her elder sister). Rudisill helped to raise Capote, who lived with her at times during his childhood, both in Alabama and New York City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rudisill
Christian Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Greek Orthodox Church)
Hubertus
Malachy O' More
Martin de Porres
Rupert Mayer
Winefride
November 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Acepsimas of Hnaita, the bishop (376), Joseph the presbyter (377), and Aeithalas the deacon (377), of Persia
Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions, at Sebaste (320)
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus contested around the year 330 CE. Persian Christians who confessed their faith before Shapur II, the king. Their confession inspired the conversion of 7000 Persians before they were burned to death. Two churches in Constantinople are named in their honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_3
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www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
www.amug.org/~jpaul/nov03.html
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dc-residents-cast-first-presidential-votes
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1103.htm
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