Post by farmgal on Nov 5, 2012 23:01:04 GMT -5
November 05 is the 310th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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1528 Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas. On this day, the Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.
Cabeza de Vaca's unintentional journey to Texas was a disaster from the start. A series of dire accidents and Indian attacks plagued his expedition's 300 men as they explored north Florida. The survivors then cobbled together five flimsy boats and headed to sea, where they endured vicious storms, severe shortages of food and water, and attacks from Indians wherever they put to shore. With his exploration party reduced to only 80 or 90 men, Cabeza de Vaca's motley flotilla finally wrecked on what was probably Galveston Island just off the coast of Texas.
Unfortunately, landing on shore did not end Cabeza de Vaca's trials. During the next four years, the party barely managed to eke out a tenuous existence by trading with the Indians located in modern-day east Texas. The crew steadily died off from illness, accidents, and attacks until only Cabeza de Vaca and three others remained. In 1532, the four survivors set out on an arduous journey across the present-day states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Captured by the Karankawa Indians, they lived in virtual slavery for nearly two years. Only after Cabeza de Vaca had won the respect of the Karankawa by becoming a skilled medicine man and diplomat did the small band win their freedom.
In 1536, the men encountered a party of Spanish slave hunters in what is now the Mexican state of Sinaloa. They followed them back to Mexico City, where the tale of their amazing odyssey became famous throughout the colony and in Europe. Despite the many hardships experienced by Cabeza de Vaca and his men during their northern travels, their stories inspired others to intensify exploration of the region that would one day become Texas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabeza_de_Vaca
1789 Pope Pius VI (1717–1799) appointed Father John Carroll (1735–1815) as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_(bishop)
1853 The first Chinese Presbyterian Church in the U.S. was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1854 John Philip Sousa is born. John Philip Sousa did not invent the musical genre he came to personify, but even if no other composer had ever written a single piece in the same style, the standard repertoire of the American marching band would be little changed. The instantly recognizable sound of Sousa's timeless pieces—"The Washington Post" (1889), "The Liberty Bell" (1893), and "Stars And Stripes Forever" (1896)—is permanently etched in many Americans' memory banks. One of the most popular, prolific and important American composers of all time, John Philip Sousa--"the March King"--was born in Washington, D.C., on this day in 1854
The son of a United States Marine Band trombonist, John Philip Sousa began his musical education at the age of six, but his musical and political sensibilities were shaped as much by external events as by his formal training. Raised in the nation's capital during the Civil War, Sousa was exposed to military music on a regular basis, and at a time when the role of military bands was not merely to provide entertainment and stoke patriotic fervor among civilians, but sometimes to accompany actual marches onto the field of combat. Following the war, Sousa served a seven-year apprenticeship in the Marine Band and then returned as the group's Director in 1880. It was in the late 1880s that he began to make his name not just as the conductor of America's oldest professional musical organization, but as a composer in the patriotic style of music he'd been immersed in since childhood
Sousa would compose upwards of 300 diverse musical works in his long and prosperous career, but it is his 136 marches for which he is best known. After leaving the Marine Band, he became the leader of his own group, the Sousa Band, which he would lead from 1892 until shortly before his death in 1932. Ironically, although it was a major international concert draw traveling the world and playing its conductor's famous marches, the Sousa Band rarely ever marched. It did, however, make John Philip Sousa a very wealthy and famous individual, as well as making his very name synonymous with some of the most quintessentially American music ever written
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa
1860 The Advent Christian Association was formally organized at Worcester, Massachusetts. They were separatists from the main body of Adventists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_Christian_Church
1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th U.S. President. In the presidential election of 1860, Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, defeated three opponents: Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat), John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), and John Bell of the Constitutional Union party. He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. Lincoln's victory was the signal for the secession of South Carolina (Dec. 20, 1860), and that state was followed out of the Union by six other states: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
1861 Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year.
Like his Union counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, Davis was a native of Kentucky, born in 1808. He attended West Point and graduated in 1828. After serving in the Black Hawk War of 1832, Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of General (and future President) Zachary Taylor, and the couple settled on the Brierfield plantation in Mississippi. Tragically, Sarah contracted malaria and died within two months of their marriage. Davis then married Varina Howells in 1845, but he maintained close ties to his former father-in-law. Davis was a close advisor to Taylor during the Mexican War, during which he was seriously wounded. After the war, he was appointed to fill a vacant U.S. senate seat from Mississippi, and he served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.
When the Southern states began seceding after the election of Abraham Lincoln in the winter of 1860 and 1861, Davis suspected that he might be the choice of his fellow Southerners to be their interim president. When the newly seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861, they decided just that. He expressed great fear about what lay ahead. "Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits, and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable." On November 6, Davis was elected to a six-year term as established by the Confederate constitution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis
1862 A direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco was established.
1865 Months after the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse effectively ended the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Shenandoah
1869 First intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). Rutgers University and its neighbor, Princeton, played the first game of intercollegiate football on Nov. 6, 1869, on a plot of ground where the present-day Rutgers gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4. The game, which bore little resemblance to its modern-day counterpart, was played with two teams of 25 men each under rugby-like rules.
1882 ‘The Jersey Lily of England’ made her American debut. Whilst playing to a packed house in Edinburgh, a New Yorker by the name of Henry E. Abbey was struck by her astonishing beauty and offered her a season in America. Lily Langtry would star in "An Unequal Match" which opened in New York City. In 1882, Lillie arrived in America traffic came to a standstill and The New York Stock Exchange was closed. On the eve of her debut at New York's Park Theatre the theatre burnt to the ground leaving only a charred sign bearing the name "Lillie Langtry". Thereafter, Lillie's fame was assured and she was a huge hit across America including a town in Texas, Langtry, named after her by yet another admirer, Judge Roy Bean. In the 1882-1883 season she grossed between $100,000 and $150,000, an unheard of amount of money at the time. Lillie Langtry was a superstar!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Langtry
1906 Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama. On this day in 1906, President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt embarks on a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States.
Roosevelt entered office in 1901 with the firm intention of asserting American influence over Central and South American politics, partly as a result of his own past experiences in the area. In 1897, he became secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, whose administration worked to secure access to ports and industries in countries with close proximity to the U.S. At the time of Roosevelt's appointment to the Navy's highest civilian office, American sea power was on the rise, enabling the U.S. to become a greater influence in world affairs.
Five years later, now-President Roosevelt visited Panama to check on the progress of the Panama Canal, the construction of which had suffered many setbacks, including worker accidents and disease outbreaks. Roosevelt's tenacious demands for improvements in health care and better working conditions pushed the canal project forward just when it appeared doomed to failure. His trip to the construction site in 1906 –which included the taking of a November 15 photo of the president himself working the controls of a large steam shovel—helped to boost flagging morale.
Roosevelt's next stop was Puerto Rico, which had become a U.S. protectorate after the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1900, President William McKinley promised to help establish a civilian government there without becoming an occupying power. McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and Roosevelt, who was then serving as McKinley's vice president became president, inheriting the stewardship of Puerto Rico. In 1906, he traveled to the country to recommend that Puerto Ricans become U.S. citizens. He stopped short of suggesting Puerto Rico become another U.S. state, however, and vowed to allow the island a certain amount of autonomy. (It was not until 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, that thewas passed, extending the option of U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans while preserving Puerto Rico's autonomy.)
Although presidents before Roosevelt had traveled outside the U.S. in other diplomatic capacities prior to or after serving as president, Roosevelt was the first to make a "state" visit while in office. His trip to Panama and Puerto Rico signaled a new era in how presidents conducted diplomatic relations with other countries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt
1917 After more than three months of bloody combat, the Third Battle of Ypres effectively comes to an end on November 6, 1917, with a hard-won victory by British and Canadian troops at the Belgian village of Passchendaele.
Launched on July 31, 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres was spearheaded by the British commander in chief, Sir Douglas Haig. After a major Allied offensive by the French failed the previous May, Haig determined that his troops should launch another one that same year, proceeding according to his mistaken belief that the German army at this point in World War I was on the verge of collapse, and could be broken completely by a major Allied victory. As the site for the offensive Haig chose the much-contested Ypres Salient, in the Flanders region of Belgium, a region that had seen two previous German-led offensives. Ostensibly aimed at destroying German submarine bases located on the north coast of Belgium, Haig’s Third Battle of Ypres began with significant Allied gains but soon bogged down due to heavy rains and thickening mud.
By the end of September, the British were able to establish control over a ridge of land east of the town of Ypres. From there, Haig pushed his commanders to continue the attacks towards the Passchendaele ridge, some 10 kilometers away. As the battle stretched into its third month, the Allied attackers reached near-exhaustion, while the Germans were able to reinforce their positions with reserve troops released from the Eastern Front, where Russia’s army was in chaos. Refusing to give up the ghost of his major victory, Haig ordered a final three attacks on Passchendaele in late October.
On October 30, Canadian troops under British command were finally able to fight their way into the village; they were driven back almost immediately, however, and the bloodshed was enormous. "The sights up there are beyond all description," one officer wrote weeks later of the fighting at Passchendaele, "it is a blessing to a certain extent that one becomes callous to it all and that one’s mind is not able to take it all in." Still Haig pushed his men on, and on November 6 the British and Canadian troops were finally able to capture Passchendaele, allowing the general to call off the attacks, claiming victory. In fact, British forces were exhausted and downtrodden after the long, grinding offensive. With some 275,000 British casualties, including 70,000 dead—as opposed to 260,000 on the German side—the Third Battle of Ypres proved to be one of the most costly and controversial Allied offensives of World War I.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Ypres
1917 The agreement to form the United Lutheran Church in America was adopted by the United Synod of the South at Salisbury, North Carolina.
1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor. In 1927, his electric was perfected to the point of being a marketable product. He was so sure of its success that he sold the assets of his razor company to the American Chain & Cable Company in 1928 for capitalisation. In 1929, the dry shaver went on the market, and in 1930 the firm was incorporated as Schick Dry Shaver, Inc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_razor#Electric_razors
1928 The first Motogram machine was installed on the New York Times Building in Times Square. The world's first illuminated news ticker (dubbed the "Motogram") circles the building; it got it s start reporting the 1928 election returns. (Hoover won.)
1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1936 RCA displays TV for the press. RCA displayed its 343-line TV for the press as part of NBC's tenth anniversary celebration. RCA, Philco and Don Lee all started giving public demonstrations to the press and various radio executives. Up until that time television had been considered a dark secret with many jealously guarded trade secrets and patents. As it turned out, most of the patents were shared. By November 1936 there were only about forty to fifty experimental television sets in the New York area, and Philadelphia and Los Angeles had even fewer.
1936 Woody Herman played in his first recording session. Herman recorded Wintertime Dreams on Decca. When Isham Jones's band, of which Herman had been a member, broke up in 1936, he formed his own band, the Woody Herman Orchestra, with some of his band mates. This band became known for its orchestrations of the blues and was sometimes billed as "The Band That Plays The Blues." On April 12, 1939 Woody Herman recorded his greatest commercial and mega popular hit record "Woodchoppers' Ball"
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), first commercial TV station, begins service. WRGB traces its roots to an experimental station founded on January 13, 1928 from the General Electric facility under the call letters W2XB on channel 4. It was popularly known as "WGY Television" after its radio sister. In 1939, it began sharing programs with W2XBS (forerunner of WNBC-TV) in New York City, becoming NBC's third affiliate - a link that would last for 42 years.
1939 Sonderaktion Krakau takes place. It was the codename for a German operation against professors and academics from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the action plan to exterminate the Polish intellectual elite known as Intelligenzaktion, especially in those centres, such as Kraków, which were slated by the Nazis to become culturally German.
1941 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 "Meet the Press" was first seen in the local Washington, D.C. market. "Meet the Press" made its television debut on November 6, 1947. It is now the longest-running television show in United States broadcasting history, and the only continuously aired show from the 1940s to still be on the air. The show was originally presented as a thirty-minute press conference, with a single guest and a panel of questioners. (The show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1954 "This Ole House" by Rosemary Clooney topped the charts. In 1949, Country music songwriter Stuart Hamblen was hunting in Texas with a friend when he found a derelict hut 20 miles from the nearest road. Inside, amidst much trash, lay the dead body of an old prospector. Hamblen, deeply moved, wrote the song's lyrics on a sandwich bag. No publisher wanted it so he published it himself. Rosemary Clooney's version sold over 2 million in the US alone and was a transatlantic #1.
1955 The first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast. The first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast as TV viewers watched Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton star in "The Constant Husband". It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better off had his memory remained lost: Llewellyn discovers that he's had seven wives -- simultaneously!
1961 "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean topped the charts. Jimmy Dean wrote "Big Bad John" about fellow actor John Mentoe ("Destry Rides Again"), who was 6' 5" tall. According to Dean's roommate (at the time), the song was intended to be a joke. Floyd Cramer ("Last Date") was hired to play the piano on the recording, but wound up hitting a chunk of steel with a hammer instead. It was Floyd's idea to make the switch. Not only did it top the Pop charts for 5 weeks, but it was also #1 on the Country charts for 2 weeks, and #1 Adult Contemporary for 10 weeks.
1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. The basketball stamp, issued on November 6, 1961, marks the centennial of the birth of Dr. James Naismith, (1861-1939), who invented the game at the Y.M.C.A. College in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.
1963 Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 "Get Off My Cloud" by the Rolling Stones topped the charts. "Get Off My Cloud" followed "Satisfaction" as The Stones second #1 hit in the US. Some radio stations would not play this because they thought it was about drugs.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1966 First entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1969 First Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore & Denny McLain, Detroit)Cuellar tied Denny McLain for AL Cy Young honors with a 23-11, 2.38 performance, then in the World Series was the only Oriole to beat the Mets. McLain, 1968's unanimous Cy Young winner, finished the season with a 24-9 mark and a team-record nine shutouts.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1971 "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" by Cher topped the charts. "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," a conscious attempt to emulate Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" was released late in 1971 and became a number one hit and a million-seller. To some listeners, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" was the epitome of schlocky pop/rock, but the song's subject matter, unusual tempo changes, and an incredibly memorable chorus-hook demonstrated Cher's maturation as an artist.
1977 The Barnes Lake Dam burst in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, releasing a flood of water that destroyed the campus of Toccoa Falls College. Thirty-eight students and instructors were killed in the tragedy.
Ninety miles north of Atlanta, the Toccoa (Cherokee for "beautiful") Falls Dam was constructed of earth across a canyon in 1887, creating a 55-acre lake 180 feet above the Toccoa Creek. In 1911, R.A. Forrest established the Christian and Missionary Alliance College along the creek below the dam. According to legend, he bought the land for the campus from a banker with the only $10 dollars he had to his name, offering God's word that he would pay the remaining $24,990 of the purchase price later.
Sixty-six years later on November 5, a volunteer fireman inspected the dam and found everything in order. However, just hours afterward, in the early morning of November 6, the dam suddenly gave way. Water thundered down the canyon and creek, approaching speeds of 120 miles per hour.
Although there was a tremendous roar when the dam broke, the residents of the college had no time to evacuate. Within minutes, the entire community was slammed by a wave of water. One woman managed to hang onto a roof torn from a building and ride the wave of water for thousands of feet. Her three daughters, however, were not so fortunate: They were among the 39 people who lost their lives in the flood.
First lady Rosalynn Carter visited the college to offer her support in the wake of the tragedy. She later wrote, "Instead, I was enveloped by hope and courage and love."
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1981 A black-footed ferret was found in Wyoming, previously thought extinct. An animal of North America’s arid, shortgrass prairies, it lived primarily with, and on, prairie dogs. Wide-scale poisoning programs to eradicate prairie dogs and the destruction of grassland habitat also killed o ff the ferret. It now survives in a few places in the western United States where ranchers are compensated for not molesting prairie dog towns and where management programs for the prairie dog and the ferret are being developed. It takes about 100 acres of prairie dog colony to support one ferret family (a female and her young). Predators such as owls, eagles, hawks, coyotes, badgers, foxes, and bobcats are the main cause of death for wild ferrets.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret
1985 The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1986 Edy’s Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 policy to protect their taste-tester. John Harrison has a "sweet" job. As the Official Taster for Edy's Grand Ice Cream, he gets paid to eat ice cream every day! John's 9,000 talented taste buds are so important to Edy's that they are insured for a very cool one million dollars. In order to distinguish the subtleties of ice cream, John takes extra measures to protect his taste buds. He stays away from spicy foods, alcohol and smoking, and each morning he drinks a cup of tea to cleanse his palate.
1988 Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States. Soviet scientist and well-known human rights activist Andrei Sakharov begins a two-week visit to the United States. During his visit, he pleaded with the American government and people to support Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reforms), and so ensure the success of a new, more democratic, and friendlier Soviet system.
Sakharov had not always been a favorite of the Soviet government. During the late-1930s and 1940s, he was a respected physicist in the Soviet Union, and was part of the group of scientists who worked to develop Russia's first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. By the late 1950s, however, he began to have serious doubts about Russia's open-air testing of nuclear weapons. He also began to protest for more scientific freedom in the Soviet Union. By the mid-1960s, he was openly criticizing the Stalinist legacy and current laws designed to muzzle political opponents. In 1968, he had an essay published in the New York Times calling for a system that merged socialism and capitalism. Because of this, Sakharov was stripped of his security clearance and job. In 1970, he co-founded the Moscow Committee for Human Rights. His work resulted in his winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
Sakharov also urged the United States to pressure the Soviet Union concerning the latter's human rights policies, and harshly criticized Russia's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. He and his wife were arrested and sentenced to internal exile. Despite his isolation, his supporters continued to smuggle his writings out of the country.
In December 1986, Gorbachev released Sakharov and his wife from exile. It was a pragmatic move on Gorbachev's part: He desired closer relations with the West, and Sakharov had become a hero to many in the United States and elsewhere. Sakharov became a spokesman for the reforms Gorbachev was trying to push through, and praised the construction of the new Soviet Union. His November 1988 trip to the United States was part of this effort. Nevertheless, he continued to press for more democracy in the Soviet Union. On December 14, 1989, shortly after delivering a speech denouncing Russia's one-party rule, Sakharov suffered a heart attack and died.
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages. A massive fire started deliberately on the backlot destroyed a fifth of the standing sets. The total damage was estimated at up to $50 million, and was started in a Brownstone Street alley by a security guard with a cigarette lighter.
1998 President Clinton designates "Automobile National Heritage Area" in Detroit. On November 6, 1998, President Bill Clinton declares that part of Detroit will become an "Automobile National Heritage Area." The designation restricted land use and drew attention to what Michigan Congressman John Dingell called "the automobile's contribution to our history and economic strength and the role of organized labor in that history."
The area, the 18th of 40 National Heritage Areas in the U.S., has been renamed the MotorCities National Heritage Area. The Heritage region covers 10,000 square miles and is home to more than 6 million people. "Not just 'Any Place, USA' can be a National Heritage Area," the National Park Service notes. "It requires a unique story that is important to the heritage of America and an act of Congress to become a National Heritage Area. It encourages residents and visitors to recognize, celebrate, and share with others that they are part of a region where great things happened and continue to happen in ways that shape and mol d America."
There are almost 1,200 auto-related sites in the region, more than any other place in the world. These include the Ford world headquarters in Dearborn, the childhood home of the groundbreaking automaker Preston Tucker, several classic-car museums, old union halls and iconic bars, and countless factories, machine shops and assembly plants for all kinds of cars and trucks.
2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Births
1832 Joseph Smith III (d 1914) eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and Emma Hale Smith. Joseph Smith III was the Prophet–President of what became known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now called the Community of Christ, which considers itself a continuation of the church established by Smith's father in 1830.[1] For fifty-four years until his own death, Smith presided over the church. Smith's ideas and nature set much of the tone for the church's development.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_III
1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot (d 1903) American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accord with scientific method.
1841 Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (d 1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911.
1851 Charles Henry Dow (d 1902) American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Dow also founded The Wall Street Journal, which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world. He also invented the Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements. He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, the groundwork for technical analysis.
1854 John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1855 Ezra Seymour Gosney (d 1942) was an American philanthropist and eugenicist. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and citizenship," primarily through the advocacy of compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
1861 James Naismith (d 1939) Canadian and naturalized American sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. Naismith wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1875 Roland Burrage Dixon (d 1934) U.S. cultural anthropologist who built Harvard's reputation for training anthropologists. After graduating from Harvard (1897) while an assistant at its Peabody Museum, he made archaeological excavations of the burial mounds in Madisonville, Ohio. He first visited the Indians of California in 1899, and with subsequent studies there through 1907 became a recognized authority on their ethnography, folklore, and linguistics. He travelled widely in his field work, making studies in Siberia, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and Oceania. He published work on the geographical distributions of cultural traits of diverse populations around the world in The Racial History of Man (1923).
1880 Chris van Abkoude (d 1960, Portland, Oregon) Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books. He wrote the series of Pietje Bell novels from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between. He moved to the U.S.A in 1916 and wrote all the Pietje Bell books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam. Before his writing career, van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.
1882 Thomas Harper Ince (d 1924) American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line" system of film making. His screenplay The Italian (1915) was preserved by the United States National Film Registry, as was his film Civilization (1916). He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company, and built his own studios in Culver City, which later became the legendary home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also known for his death aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst; officially he died of heart trouble, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies.
1887 Walter Perry Johnson (d 1946), nicknamed "The Big Train", was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played his whole career on the Washington Senators from 1907–1927. He would later serve as manager of the Senators from 1929–1932 and for the Cleveland Indians from 1933–1935.
One of the most celebrated and dominating players in baseball history, Johnson established several pitching records, some of which remain unbroken. He remains by far the all-time career leader in shutouts with 110, second with 417 wins, and fourth in complete games with 531. He once held the career record in strikeouts with 3,509 and was the only player in the 3,000 strikeout club for over 50 years until Bob Gibson recorded his 3,000th strikeout in 1974. Johnson led the league in strikeouts a Major League record 12 times--one more than current strikeout leader Nolan Ryan--including a record eight consecutive seasons
1892 Harold Wallace Ross (d 1951) American journalist and founder of The New Yorker magazine, which he edited from the magazine's inception in 1925 to his death.
1892 John Sigvard Olsen Wabash IN, John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen and Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson were zany American comedians of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway stage, motion pictures and television. Their shows were noted for their crazy blackout gags and orchestrated mayhem ("anything can happen, and it probably will"). Their most famous concept, Hellzapoppin', has become show-business shorthand for freewheeling, anything-goes comedy; it enjoyed a lengthy run on Broadway and spawned a movie version.
1893 Edsel Bryant Ford (d 1943), son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.
1916 Joseph Raymond Conniff (d 2002) American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.
1931 Mike Nichols German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
1932 Stonewall Jackson American country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.
1940 Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf former German aviator and airline executive, is the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Currently, he is the eleventh most senior apostle in the ranks of the Church.
1946 Sally Margaret Field American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter.
1949 Robert Creel "Brad" Davis (d 1991) American actor, best known for starring in the highly controversial 1978 film Midnight Express.
1955 Maria Owings Shriver American award-winning journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has won a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for a "television show with a conscience". She is the First Lady of California, married to actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is a member of the Kennedy family.
1976 Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman (d 2004) American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He joined the United States Army Rangers and served multiple tours in combat before he died in the mountains of Afghanistan. Initially, the U.S. government attempted a cover-up, reporting that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, with Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal approving a Silver Star citation. Later, his actual cause of death by friendly fire was recognized.
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1406 Pope Innocent VII (b. ca. 1336).
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1790 James Bowdoin (b 1726) American founder and first president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780). He was a scientist prominent in physics and astronomy, and wrote several papers including one on electricity with Benjamin Franklin, a close friend. In one of his letters to Franklin, Bowdoin suggested the theory, since generally accepted, that the phosphorescence of the sea, under certain conditions, is due to the presence of minute animals. Bowdoin was also a political leader in Massachusetts during the American revolution (1775-83), and governor of Massachusetts (1785-87). His remarkable library of 1,200 volumes, ranged from science and math to philosophy, religion, poetry, and fiction. He left it in his will to the Academy.
1816 Gouverneur Morris (b 1752) American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its signers. He is widely credited as the author of the document's preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union ... " and has been called the 'Penman of the Constitution.'[1] In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states
1850 Charles Meineke (b. 1782), German-born American church organist who wrote the tune GLORIA PATRI. He emigrated from Germany to England in 1810, then to America in 1822. For eight years he was organist at Saint Paul Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Meineke published several volumes of hymns during his life.
prayerfoundation.org/hymns_z_z_gloria_patri.htm
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1876 James Nicholson (b. ca. 1828), Irish-born American Methodist layman and hymnist, died.
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1893 Peter I. Tchaikovsky (b. 7 May 1840), Russian composer.
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1935 Billy Sunday (b. 19 November 1862), American Presbyterian revivalist.
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1935 Henry Fairfield Osborn (b 1857) American paleontologist and museum administrator who greatly influenced the art of museum display and the education of paleontologists in the United States and Great Britain. In 1891, the American Museum of Natural History hired Osborn as the first curator of the new Department of Vertebrate Paleontology because the trustees had realized that the Museum was falling behind other institutions in developing a collection of dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates. Within a decade, Osborn assembled a talented staff of curators and collectors, and fossils were soon streaming into the Museum from all over the world. One of Osborn's favorite groups for study was the brontotheres, and he was the first to carry out comprehensive research on them.
1936 Henry Bourne Joy (b 1864) President of the Packard Motor Car Company, and a major developer of automotive activities as well as being a social activist.
1937 Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (b 1856) American Impressionist painter who was married to Emma Lampert Cooper.
1968 Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay III (b 1898) career naval officer and the Commanding Officer of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) when it was lost in action in 1945 and rescue efforts were delayed, resulting in massive loss of life. In the wake of the incident he was blamed for it. After years of mental health problems he committed suicide. Following years of efforts by survivors and others to clear his name, Captain McVay was posthumously exonerated by the United States Congress in 2001.
1976 David Marine (b 1888) American pathologist whose substantial research on the treatment of goiter with iodine led to the iodizing of table salt. During 1917-22 he ran a trial on a large group of schoolgirls to show that an iodine supplement dramatically reduced the incident of goiter (a major swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck). His results clearly showed the important of iodine in the diet. Dr. David.M. Cowie promoted the production of iodized table salt, first sold on 1 May 1924, and later throughout the U.S., greatly reducing the incidence of goiter. Marine worked on salt iodization for the World Health Organization, further spreading its benefits. (As early as 1821 French chemist Jean-Baptiste Boussingault had observed that iodine-rich salt could treat goiter.)
2007 Henry William Thompson (b 1925), known professionally as Hank Thompson, American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades. He sold more than 60 million records worldwide.
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November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (ca. 350)
Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, hermit (1193)
Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936)
Saint Elias Fondaminskii of Paris (1942)
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1528 Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas. On this day, the Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.
Cabeza de Vaca's unintentional journey to Texas was a disaster from the start. A series of dire accidents and Indian attacks plagued his expedition's 300 men as they explored north Florida. The survivors then cobbled together five flimsy boats and headed to sea, where they endured vicious storms, severe shortages of food and water, and attacks from Indians wherever they put to shore. With his exploration party reduced to only 80 or 90 men, Cabeza de Vaca's motley flotilla finally wrecked on what was probably Galveston Island just off the coast of Texas.
Unfortunately, landing on shore did not end Cabeza de Vaca's trials. During the next four years, the party barely managed to eke out a tenuous existence by trading with the Indians located in modern-day east Texas. The crew steadily died off from illness, accidents, and attacks until only Cabeza de Vaca and three others remained. In 1532, the four survivors set out on an arduous journey across the present-day states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Captured by the Karankawa Indians, they lived in virtual slavery for nearly two years. Only after Cabeza de Vaca had won the respect of the Karankawa by becoming a skilled medicine man and diplomat did the small band win their freedom.
In 1536, the men encountered a party of Spanish slave hunters in what is now the Mexican state of Sinaloa. They followed them back to Mexico City, where the tale of their amazing odyssey became famous throughout the colony and in Europe. Despite the many hardships experienced by Cabeza de Vaca and his men during their northern travels, their stories inspired others to intensify exploration of the region that would one day become Texas.
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1789 Pope Pius VI (1717–1799) appointed Father John Carroll (1735–1815) as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
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1853 The first Chinese Presbyterian Church in the U.S. was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1854 John Philip Sousa is born. John Philip Sousa did not invent the musical genre he came to personify, but even if no other composer had ever written a single piece in the same style, the standard repertoire of the American marching band would be little changed. The instantly recognizable sound of Sousa's timeless pieces—"The Washington Post" (1889), "The Liberty Bell" (1893), and "Stars And Stripes Forever" (1896)—is permanently etched in many Americans' memory banks. One of the most popular, prolific and important American composers of all time, John Philip Sousa--"the March King"--was born in Washington, D.C., on this day in 1854
The son of a United States Marine Band trombonist, John Philip Sousa began his musical education at the age of six, but his musical and political sensibilities were shaped as much by external events as by his formal training. Raised in the nation's capital during the Civil War, Sousa was exposed to military music on a regular basis, and at a time when the role of military bands was not merely to provide entertainment and stoke patriotic fervor among civilians, but sometimes to accompany actual marches onto the field of combat. Following the war, Sousa served a seven-year apprenticeship in the Marine Band and then returned as the group's Director in 1880. It was in the late 1880s that he began to make his name not just as the conductor of America's oldest professional musical organization, but as a composer in the patriotic style of music he'd been immersed in since childhood
Sousa would compose upwards of 300 diverse musical works in his long and prosperous career, but it is his 136 marches for which he is best known. After leaving the Marine Band, he became the leader of his own group, the Sousa Band, which he would lead from 1892 until shortly before his death in 1932. Ironically, although it was a major international concert draw traveling the world and playing its conductor's famous marches, the Sousa Band rarely ever marched. It did, however, make John Philip Sousa a very wealthy and famous individual, as well as making his very name synonymous with some of the most quintessentially American music ever written
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1860 The Advent Christian Association was formally organized at Worcester, Massachusetts. They were separatists from the main body of Adventists.
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1861 Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year.
Like his Union counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, Davis was a native of Kentucky, born in 1808. He attended West Point and graduated in 1828. After serving in the Black Hawk War of 1832, Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of General (and future President) Zachary Taylor, and the couple settled on the Brierfield plantation in Mississippi. Tragically, Sarah contracted malaria and died within two months of their marriage. Davis then married Varina Howells in 1845, but he maintained close ties to his former father-in-law. Davis was a close advisor to Taylor during the Mexican War, during which he was seriously wounded. After the war, he was appointed to fill a vacant U.S. senate seat from Mississippi, and he served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.
When the Southern states began seceding after the election of Abraham Lincoln in the winter of 1860 and 1861, Davis suspected that he might be the choice of his fellow Southerners to be their interim president. When the newly seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861, they decided just that. He expressed great fear about what lay ahead. "Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits, and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable." On November 6, Davis was elected to a six-year term as established by the Confederate constitution.
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1862 A direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco was established.
1865 Months after the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse effectively ended the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.
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1869 First intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). Rutgers University and its neighbor, Princeton, played the first game of intercollegiate football on Nov. 6, 1869, on a plot of ground where the present-day Rutgers gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4. The game, which bore little resemblance to its modern-day counterpart, was played with two teams of 25 men each under rugby-like rules.
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1906 Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama. On this day in 1906, President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt embarks on a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States.
Roosevelt entered office in 1901 with the firm intention of asserting American influence over Central and South American politics, partly as a result of his own past experiences in the area. In 1897, he became secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, whose administration worked to secure access to ports and industries in countries with close proximity to the U.S. At the time of Roosevelt's appointment to the Navy's highest civilian office, American sea power was on the rise, enabling the U.S. to become a greater influence in world affairs.
Five years later, now-President Roosevelt visited Panama to check on the progress of the Panama Canal, the construction of which had suffered many setbacks, including worker accidents and disease outbreaks. Roosevelt's tenacious demands for improvements in health care and better working conditions pushed the canal project forward just when it appeared doomed to failure. His trip to the construction site in 1906 –which included the taking of a November 15 photo of the president himself working the controls of a large steam shovel—helped to boost flagging morale.
Roosevelt's next stop was Puerto Rico, which had become a U.S. protectorate after the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1900, President William McKinley promised to help establish a civilian government there without becoming an occupying power. McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and Roosevelt, who was then serving as McKinley's vice president became president, inheriting the stewardship of Puerto Rico. In 1906, he traveled to the country to recommend that Puerto Ricans become U.S. citizens. He stopped short of suggesting Puerto Rico become another U.S. state, however, and vowed to allow the island a certain amount of autonomy. (It was not until 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, that thewas passed, extending the option of U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans while preserving Puerto Rico's autonomy.)
Although presidents before Roosevelt had traveled outside the U.S. in other diplomatic capacities prior to or after serving as president, Roosevelt was the first to make a "state" visit while in office. His trip to Panama and Puerto Rico signaled a new era in how presidents conducted diplomatic relations with other countries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt
1917 After more than three months of bloody combat, the Third Battle of Ypres effectively comes to an end on November 6, 1917, with a hard-won victory by British and Canadian troops at the Belgian village of Passchendaele.
Launched on July 31, 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres was spearheaded by the British commander in chief, Sir Douglas Haig. After a major Allied offensive by the French failed the previous May, Haig determined that his troops should launch another one that same year, proceeding according to his mistaken belief that the German army at this point in World War I was on the verge of collapse, and could be broken completely by a major Allied victory. As the site for the offensive Haig chose the much-contested Ypres Salient, in the Flanders region of Belgium, a region that had seen two previous German-led offensives. Ostensibly aimed at destroying German submarine bases located on the north coast of Belgium, Haig’s Third Battle of Ypres began with significant Allied gains but soon bogged down due to heavy rains and thickening mud.
By the end of September, the British were able to establish control over a ridge of land east of the town of Ypres. From there, Haig pushed his commanders to continue the attacks towards the Passchendaele ridge, some 10 kilometers away. As the battle stretched into its third month, the Allied attackers reached near-exhaustion, while the Germans were able to reinforce their positions with reserve troops released from the Eastern Front, where Russia’s army was in chaos. Refusing to give up the ghost of his major victory, Haig ordered a final three attacks on Passchendaele in late October.
On October 30, Canadian troops under British command were finally able to fight their way into the village; they were driven back almost immediately, however, and the bloodshed was enormous. "The sights up there are beyond all description," one officer wrote weeks later of the fighting at Passchendaele, "it is a blessing to a certain extent that one becomes callous to it all and that one’s mind is not able to take it all in." Still Haig pushed his men on, and on November 6 the British and Canadian troops were finally able to capture Passchendaele, allowing the general to call off the attacks, claiming victory. In fact, British forces were exhausted and downtrodden after the long, grinding offensive. With some 275,000 British casualties, including 70,000 dead—as opposed to 260,000 on the German side—the Third Battle of Ypres proved to be one of the most costly and controversial Allied offensives of World War I.
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1917 The agreement to form the United Lutheran Church in America was adopted by the United Synod of the South at Salisbury, North Carolina.
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1928 The first Motogram machine was installed on the New York Times Building in Times Square. The world's first illuminated news ticker (dubbed the "Motogram") circles the building; it got it s start reporting the 1928 election returns. (Hoover won.)
1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), first commercial TV station, begins service. WRGB traces its roots to an experimental station founded on January 13, 1928 from the General Electric facility under the call letters W2XB on channel 4. It was popularly known as "WGY Television" after its radio sister. In 1939, it began sharing programs with W2XBS (forerunner of WNBC-TV) in New York City, becoming NBC's third affiliate - a link that would last for 42 years.
1939 Sonderaktion Krakau takes place. It was the codename for a German operation against professors and academics from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the action plan to exterminate the Polish intellectual elite known as Intelligenzaktion, especially in those centres, such as Kraków, which were slated by the Nazis to become culturally German.
1941 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 "Meet the Press" was first seen in the local Washington, D.C. market. "Meet the Press" made its television debut on November 6, 1947. It is now the longest-running television show in United States broadcasting history, and the only continuously aired show from the 1940s to still be on the air. The show was originally presented as a thirty-minute press conference, with a single guest and a panel of questioners. (The show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1963 Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 "Get Off My Cloud" by the Rolling Stones topped the charts. "Get Off My Cloud" followed "Satisfaction" as The Stones second #1 hit in the US. Some radio stations would not play this because they thought it was about drugs.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1966 First entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1977 The Barnes Lake Dam burst in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, releasing a flood of water that destroyed the campus of Toccoa Falls College. Thirty-eight students and instructors were killed in the tragedy.
Ninety miles north of Atlanta, the Toccoa (Cherokee for "beautiful") Falls Dam was constructed of earth across a canyon in 1887, creating a 55-acre lake 180 feet above the Toccoa Creek. In 1911, R.A. Forrest established the Christian and Missionary Alliance College along the creek below the dam. According to legend, he bought the land for the campus from a banker with the only $10 dollars he had to his name, offering God's word that he would pay the remaining $24,990 of the purchase price later.
Sixty-six years later on November 5, a volunteer fireman inspected the dam and found everything in order. However, just hours afterward, in the early morning of November 6, the dam suddenly gave way. Water thundered down the canyon and creek, approaching speeds of 120 miles per hour.
Although there was a tremendous roar when the dam broke, the residents of the college had no time to evacuate. Within minutes, the entire community was slammed by a wave of water. One woman managed to hang onto a roof torn from a building and ride the wave of water for thousands of feet. Her three daughters, however, were not so fortunate: They were among the 39 people who lost their lives in the flood.
First lady Rosalynn Carter visited the college to offer her support in the wake of the tragedy. She later wrote, "Instead, I was enveloped by hope and courage and love."
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1981 A black-footed ferret was found in Wyoming, previously thought extinct. An animal of North America’s arid, shortgrass prairies, it lived primarily with, and on, prairie dogs. Wide-scale poisoning programs to eradicate prairie dogs and the destruction of grassland habitat also killed o ff the ferret. It now survives in a few places in the western United States where ranchers are compensated for not molesting prairie dog towns and where management programs for the prairie dog and the ferret are being developed. It takes about 100 acres of prairie dog colony to support one ferret family (a female and her young). Predators such as owls, eagles, hawks, coyotes, badgers, foxes, and bobcats are the main cause of death for wild ferrets.
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1985 The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1988 Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States. Soviet scientist and well-known human rights activist Andrei Sakharov begins a two-week visit to the United States. During his visit, he pleaded with the American government and people to support Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reforms), and so ensure the success of a new, more democratic, and friendlier Soviet system.
Sakharov had not always been a favorite of the Soviet government. During the late-1930s and 1940s, he was a respected physicist in the Soviet Union, and was part of the group of scientists who worked to develop Russia's first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. By the late 1950s, however, he began to have serious doubts about Russia's open-air testing of nuclear weapons. He also began to protest for more scientific freedom in the Soviet Union. By the mid-1960s, he was openly criticizing the Stalinist legacy and current laws designed to muzzle political opponents. In 1968, he had an essay published in the New York Times calling for a system that merged socialism and capitalism. Because of this, Sakharov was stripped of his security clearance and job. In 1970, he co-founded the Moscow Committee for Human Rights. His work resulted in his winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
Sakharov also urged the United States to pressure the Soviet Union concerning the latter's human rights policies, and harshly criticized Russia's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. He and his wife were arrested and sentenced to internal exile. Despite his isolation, his supporters continued to smuggle his writings out of the country.
In December 1986, Gorbachev released Sakharov and his wife from exile. It was a pragmatic move on Gorbachev's part: He desired closer relations with the West, and Sakharov had become a hero to many in the United States and elsewhere. Sakharov became a spokesman for the reforms Gorbachev was trying to push through, and praised the construction of the new Soviet Union. His November 1988 trip to the United States was part of this effort. Nevertheless, he continued to press for more democracy in the Soviet Union. On December 14, 1989, shortly after delivering a speech denouncing Russia's one-party rule, Sakharov suffered a heart attack and died.
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages. A massive fire started deliberately on the backlot destroyed a fifth of the standing sets. The total damage was estimated at up to $50 million, and was started in a Brownstone Street alley by a security guard with a cigarette lighter.
1998 President Clinton designates "Automobile National Heritage Area" in Detroit. On November 6, 1998, President Bill Clinton declares that part of Detroit will become an "Automobile National Heritage Area." The designation restricted land use and drew attention to what Michigan Congressman John Dingell called "the automobile's contribution to our history and economic strength and the role of organized labor in that history."
The area, the 18th of 40 National Heritage Areas in the U.S., has been renamed the MotorCities National Heritage Area. The Heritage region covers 10,000 square miles and is home to more than 6 million people. "Not just 'Any Place, USA' can be a National Heritage Area," the National Park Service notes. "It requires a unique story that is important to the heritage of America and an act of Congress to become a National Heritage Area. It encourages residents and visitors to recognize, celebrate, and share with others that they are part of a region where great things happened and continue to happen in ways that shape and mol d America."
There are almost 1,200 auto-related sites in the region, more than any other place in the world. These include the Ford world headquarters in Dearborn, the childhood home of the groundbreaking automaker Preston Tucker, several classic-car museums, old union halls and iconic bars, and countless factories, machine shops and assembly plants for all kinds of cars and trucks.
2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Births
1832 Joseph Smith III (d 1914) eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and Emma Hale Smith. Joseph Smith III was the Prophet–President of what became known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now called the Community of Christ, which considers itself a continuation of the church established by Smith's father in 1830.[1] For fifty-four years until his own death, Smith presided over the church. Smith's ideas and nature set much of the tone for the church's development.
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1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot (d 1903) American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accord with scientific method.
1841 Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (d 1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911.
1851 Charles Henry Dow (d 1902) American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Dow also founded The Wall Street Journal, which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world. He also invented the Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements. He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, the groundwork for technical analysis.
1854 John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1855 Ezra Seymour Gosney (d 1942) was an American philanthropist and eugenicist. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and citizenship," primarily through the advocacy of compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
1861 James Naismith (d 1939) Canadian and naturalized American sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. Naismith wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1875 Roland Burrage Dixon (d 1934) U.S. cultural anthropologist who built Harvard's reputation for training anthropologists. After graduating from Harvard (1897) while an assistant at its Peabody Museum, he made archaeological excavations of the burial mounds in Madisonville, Ohio. He first visited the Indians of California in 1899, and with subsequent studies there through 1907 became a recognized authority on their ethnography, folklore, and linguistics. He travelled widely in his field work, making studies in Siberia, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and Oceania. He published work on the geographical distributions of cultural traits of diverse populations around the world in The Racial History of Man (1923).
1880 Chris van Abkoude (d 1960, Portland, Oregon) Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books. He wrote the series of Pietje Bell novels from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between. He moved to the U.S.A in 1916 and wrote all the Pietje Bell books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam. Before his writing career, van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.
1882 Thomas Harper Ince (d 1924) American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line" system of film making. His screenplay The Italian (1915) was preserved by the United States National Film Registry, as was his film Civilization (1916). He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company, and built his own studios in Culver City, which later became the legendary home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also known for his death aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst; officially he died of heart trouble, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies.
1887 Walter Perry Johnson (d 1946), nicknamed "The Big Train", was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played his whole career on the Washington Senators from 1907–1927. He would later serve as manager of the Senators from 1929–1932 and for the Cleveland Indians from 1933–1935.
One of the most celebrated and dominating players in baseball history, Johnson established several pitching records, some of which remain unbroken. He remains by far the all-time career leader in shutouts with 110, second with 417 wins, and fourth in complete games with 531. He once held the career record in strikeouts with 3,509 and was the only player in the 3,000 strikeout club for over 50 years until Bob Gibson recorded his 3,000th strikeout in 1974. Johnson led the league in strikeouts a Major League record 12 times--one more than current strikeout leader Nolan Ryan--including a record eight consecutive seasons
1892 Harold Wallace Ross (d 1951) American journalist and founder of The New Yorker magazine, which he edited from the magazine's inception in 1925 to his death.
1892 John Sigvard Olsen Wabash IN, John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen and Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson were zany American comedians of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway stage, motion pictures and television. Their shows were noted for their crazy blackout gags and orchestrated mayhem ("anything can happen, and it probably will"). Their most famous concept, Hellzapoppin', has become show-business shorthand for freewheeling, anything-goes comedy; it enjoyed a lengthy run on Broadway and spawned a movie version.
1893 Edsel Bryant Ford (d 1943), son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.
1916 Joseph Raymond Conniff (d 2002) American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.
1931 Mike Nichols German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
1932 Stonewall Jackson American country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.
1940 Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf former German aviator and airline executive, is the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Currently, he is the eleventh most senior apostle in the ranks of the Church.
1946 Sally Margaret Field American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter.
1949 Robert Creel "Brad" Davis (d 1991) American actor, best known for starring in the highly controversial 1978 film Midnight Express.
1955 Maria Owings Shriver American award-winning journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has won a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for a "television show with a conscience". She is the First Lady of California, married to actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is a member of the Kennedy family.
1976 Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman (d 2004) American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He joined the United States Army Rangers and served multiple tours in combat before he died in the mountains of Afghanistan. Initially, the U.S. government attempted a cover-up, reporting that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, with Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal approving a Silver Star citation. Later, his actual cause of death by friendly fire was recognized.
Deaths
1406 Pope Innocent VII (b. ca. 1336).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VII
1816 Gouverneur Morris (b 1752) American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its signers. He is widely credited as the author of the document's preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union ... " and has been called the 'Penman of the Constitution.'[1] In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states
1850 Charles Meineke (b. 1782), German-born American church organist who wrote the tune GLORIA PATRI. He emigrated from Germany to England in 1810, then to America in 1822. For eight years he was organist at Saint Paul Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Meineke published several volumes of hymns during his life.
prayerfoundation.org/hymns_z_z_gloria_patri.htm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfLPnoFBhII
1876 James Nicholson (b. ca. 1828), Irish-born American Methodist layman and hymnist, died.
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/n/i/c/nicholson_jl.htm
www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/h/i/whiterts.htm
1893 Peter I. Tchaikovsky (b. 7 May 1840), Russian composer.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_I._Tchaikovsky
1935 Billy Sunday (b. 19 November 1862), American Presbyterian revivalist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sunday
1936 Henry Bourne Joy (b 1864) President of the Packard Motor Car Company, and a major developer of automotive activities as well as being a social activist.
1937 Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (b 1856) American Impressionist painter who was married to Emma Lampert Cooper.
1968 Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay III (b 1898) career naval officer and the Commanding Officer of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) when it was lost in action in 1945 and rescue efforts were delayed, resulting in massive loss of life. In the wake of the incident he was blamed for it. After years of mental health problems he committed suicide. Following years of efforts by survivors and others to clear his name, Captain McVay was posthumously exonerated by the United States Congress in 2001.
2007 Henry William Thompson (b 1925), known professionally as Hank Thompson, American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades. He sold more than 60 million records worldwide.
Christian Feast Day:
Illtud
Leonard of Noblac
Winnoc
November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (ca. 350)
Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, hermit (1193)
Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936)
Saint Elias Fondaminskii of Paris (1942)
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