Post by farmgal on Nov 6, 2012 15:21:07 GMT -5
November 07 is the 312th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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680 The Third Council of Constantinople opened under Pope Leo II. During its eighteen sessions (held until September 681) the Council condemned Monothelitism (a heresy that taught that Christ's will was only divine and not human).
1535 Martin Luther and Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565), Italian reformer and papal nuncio to King Ferdinand in Germany, discussed a possible council.
1637 Controversial colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson, 46, was convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mrs. Hutchinson afterward relocated in Rhode Island with her family and friends.
1775 John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family. On this day in 1776, Congress chooses Richard Bache to succeed his father-in-law, Benjamin Franklin, as postmaster general. Franklin had sailed for France on behalf of the Continental Congress the previous month.
Benjamin Franklin invested nearly 40 years in the establishment of a reliable system of private communications in the American colonies. He was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737 and then as joint postmaster general of the colonies, a position he held from 1753 to 1774, when he was fired for opening and publishing Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson's correspondence. While postmaster, Franklin streamlined postal delivery with properly surveyed and marked routes from Maine to Florida (this route later became Route 1), instituted overnight postal travel between the critical cities of New York and Philadelphia and created a standardized rate chart based upon weight and distance.
In 1774, Franklin's baton was passed temporarily to William Goddard, a printer. Goddard was frustrated that the royal postal service was unable to reliably deliver his Pennsylvania Chronicle to its readers or critical news for the paper to him. Thus, he laid out a plan for a "Constitutional Post" before the Continental Congress on October 5, 1774. Congress waited to act on the plan until after the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Benjamin Franklin promoted Goddard's plan and served as the first postmaster general under the Continental Congress beginning July 26, 1775, nearly one year before Congress declared independence from the British crown. Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, took over the position on this day in 1776, after Franklin became an American emissary to France.
Samuel Osgood held the postmaster general position in New York City from 1789, when the U.S. Constitution came into effect, until the government moved to Philadelphia in 1791. Timothy Pickering took over then and, about a year later, the passing of the Postal Service Act gave his post greater legislative legitimacy and more effective organization. Pickering continued in the position until 1795, when he briefly served as secretary of war, before becoming the third U.S. secretary of state. The postmaster general's position was considered a plum patronage post for political allies of the president until the Postal Service was transformed into a corporation run by a board of governors in 1971.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bache
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoughton_Musical_Society
1793 During the French Revolution, "Christianity" was abolished on this date. Reason was deified, and as many as 2,000 churches were afterward destroyed throughout France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianisation_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution
1805 Lewis & Clark first sight Pacific Ocean. After crossing the continental divide, and here they encounter the Shoshone, whose chief, by an astounding coincidence, Sacagawea recognizes as her brother.With her help, the expedition purchased 30 horses from the Shoshone and begin the difficult trek through the Bitterroot Mountains, where snow and hunger lengthen the trail. Coming down out of the mountains, they are found by the Nez Perce, who permit them to fell trees for five dugout canoes and set them on course down the Clearwater River. Following the Clearwater to the Snake River and thence to the Columbia, Lewis and Clark come in sight of the Pacific on November 7, 1805. Here they establish their winter quarters, named Fort Clatsop for a nearby Indian tribe.
William Henry Harrison1811 Battle of Tippencanoe Creek in Techumseh's War. By 1811, such a large number of natives lived at Prophetstown that white settlers in Ohio and the Indiana Territory demanded that the government do something to protect them. William Henry Harrison led an army against Prophetstown in the fall of 1811. The Indians attacked Harrison's men before daybreak the morning of November 7, 1811. Harrison's army had approximately one thousand troops, including infantry and cavalry. The American army defeated the Indians, but they suffered heavy losses: sixty-two men killed and 126 wounded. While Tecumseh's confederation collapsed at the Battle of Tippecanoe, Harrison's fortunes only increased. He used his popularity as a successful Indian fighter to run for president of the United States. His campaign slogan was 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"
1836 The Synod of East Ohio was organized at Somerset, Ohio. It was originally called “The English Synod and Ministerium of Ohio.” In 1840 the synod joined the General Synod, eventually entering the United Lutheran Church.
1837 In Alton, Illinois, Presbyterian minister and abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1847 Carl H. F. Frincke (1824–1905), the first home missionary of the Missouri Synod, was ordained in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1856 The Synod of Southern Illinois was organized at Jonesboro, Illinois.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1872 The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted four weeks later. The Mary Celeste, a 103 foot brigantine, set sail from New York for Genoa on November 7, 1872. She was found abandoned at sea on December 14, 1872 590 miles west of Gibraltar by the Dei Gratia. The Mary Celeste had carried Captain Briggs, his wife and daughter, and a crew of 8. The only lifeboat was missing, and appeared to have been launched rather then torn away.
1874 A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party. Thomas Nast was a staunch Republican, and he deliberately chose the elephant as a symbol for his own Party because of the animal's great size, intelligence, strength, and dignity. It first appeared in his November 7, 1874 cartoon, The Third Term Panic, which was a comment on fears that Grant would run for a third term as President that led some Republicans to vote with the Democrats.
1876 A patent for the first U.S. cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City (No. 184,207). The Hook machine was invented in 1872, but did not come into practical commercial use until 1882. It produced a continuous cigarette of indefinite length, to be cut into individual cigarettes. Tobacco was fed onto a ribbon of paper. The paper passed over a gummed wheel as it was drawn off its spool. According revenue collection figures, the number of cigarettes manufactured in 1875 was only 50 million.
1876 Outcome of the election of 1876 in doubt. The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Rutherford B. (Birchard) Hayes of Ohio. When all was said and done, the Electoral college selected Hayes as the 19th President of the United States.
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD in US college (Yale) in physics.
1876 Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College. Meharry Medical College, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a graduate and professional institution affiliated with the United Methodist Church whose mission is to educate healthcare professionals and scientists. Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, it was the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered separately in 1915. It is currently the largest private historically black institution in the United States solely dedicated to educating healthcare professionals and scientists.
1877 African American mission work of the Synodical Conference began in the South.
1880 Nils J. Bakke (1853–1921), pioneer Synodical Conference missionary to African Americans, was ordained.
1893 Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1907 Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1907 Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode. He is killed in the explosion.
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1909 Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. On this day in 1914, while World War I rages in Europe, the first issue of a new weekly magazine, The New Republic, is published in the United States.
The New Republic’s editorial board was presided over by the journalist Herbert Croly, author of the influential 1909 book The Promise of American Life. Impressed by Croly’s arguments for greater economic planning, increased spending on education and the need for a society based on the "brotherhood of mankind"—ideas that were said to have influenced both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson--the heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, the banker and diplomat Williard Straight, approached Croly and asked him to join them in launching a new liberal journal that would provide an intelligent, opinionated examination of politics, foreign affairs and culture. After recruiting his friend and fellow journalist Walter Lippmann, Croly saw the first issue of the new magazine hit the stands on November 7, 1914.
Though its first issue sold only 875 copies, after a year the circulation of The New Republic reached 15,000. Strong supporters of Theodore Roosevelt and his newly formed Progressive Party, the magazine’s editors were wary of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, although they did support Wilson’s proclaimed neutrality at the beginning of World War I. In May 1915, however, a German submarine sank the British passenger ship Lusitania, killing 1,201 passengers and crew members, including 128 Americans. The New Republic began to switch its anti-war position, eventually throwing all its support behind President Wilson’s decision to take the nation to war in April 1917. Walter Lippmann especially grew close to the administration during wartime, working as an assistant to Newton Baker, the president’s secretary of war, and with Colonel Edward House, Wilson’s closest adviser.
In the aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, both Croly and Lippmann became critical of Wilson and the viability of the Versailles peace treaty and the League of Nations. Croly went so far as to call the treaty a "peace of annihilation" in its harsh treatment of Germany and to claim that the League would "perpetuate rather than correct the evils of the treaty." Meanwhile, sales of The New Republic declined from a wartime high of 43,000 and the journal soon was operating at a loss. Lippmann left the magazine in 1920, and in 1930 Croly was replaced as editor. Today the magazine—headquartered in Washington, D.C.—still operates as a weekly journal of opinion, with a subscription rate between 45,000 and 60,000.
1916 Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1916, Jeannette became the first woman to become elected into the House of Representatives. There, she introduced a bill that gave women independent citizenship and hygiene instruction during maternity and their children's infancy. However, it did not pass. Then, in 1917, she voted against declaring war on Germany. This gave her great unpopularity and she ended up losing her seat in the House in 1918.
1917 World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government. Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd. Nikolai Lenin was named chairman, Leon Trotsky as foreign commissar and Joseph Stalin as commissar of nationalities. This event was celebrated each year in the former USSR with parades, massive military displays and public appearances by top Soviet leaders.
1918 Robert Hutchings Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,. Goddard began work for the Army in 1917 to design rockets to aid in the war effort. By Sep 1918, Goddard had presented the Army Signal Corps with several options. The simplest version could be fired from trenches; the largest could carry an 8-lb payload a distance of about one mile. Many of these rockets were successfully demonstrated at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland on 7 Nov 1918. Goddard presented solid-fueled 5, 7.5 and 50-pound rockets capable of being launched from a 5.5-foot long by 2-inch or 3-inch wide tube. Further development led to the World War II bazooka, a small, hand-held rocket launcher.
1919 The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1930 "The Waltz You Save for Me" was recorded by Wayne King. "The Waltz You Save for Me", by "The Waltz King" himself, Wayne King, was recorded on Victor. It became King's theme. He was sometimes referred to as "the Waltz King". He played saxophone for the Paul Whitman Orchestra until he broke away to form the "Wayne King and Orchestra" in 1927.
1932 "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" first radio broadcast. Three years after bringing science fiction to the world of comic strips, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century introduced space opera to radio on his own program, which first aired on November 7, 1932. Originating from New York and broadcast four times weekly (initially at 7:15 P.M. and later moved to an earlier "children's hour"), the program had a built-in audience of funny-paper readers who tuned in by the hundreds of thousands. Underscoring the program's phenomenal popularity was the response to mail-order gifts offered to listeners. An initial offering of a map of the planets brought 125,000 requests.
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports. It was not until 1933, after several battles in the Pennsylvania legislature, that the Sunday lobby generated enough votes to modify the 1794 statute. The new law permitted baseball and football on Sunday afternoons between 2:00 and 5:30 p.m., if the voters of any locality approved. The electorate in Pennsylvania's metropolitan areas voted heavily in favor of Sunday sports at the November 1933 elections.
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1937 "Dr. Christian" debuted on CBS radio. A long-running family series, "Dr. Christian" was a quiet anthology of small-town life as well as a medical drama -- bringing the people of the small town of River's End to life thru the eyes of the kindly Dr. Paul Christian. Jean Hersholt played the part of the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played his nurse, Judy. The "Dr. Christian" theme song was "Rainbow on the River". Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice).
1938 The first broadcast of "This Day is Ours", was heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.
1940 At approximately 11:00 am, the first Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations. Situated on the Tacoma Narrows in Puget Sound, near the city of Tacoma, Washington, the bridge had only been open for traffic a few months.
1940 - The Galloping Gertie bridge at Tacoma, WA, collapsed in strong winds resulting in a six million dollar loss, just four months after the grand opening of the new bridge. The winds caused the evenly sized spans of the bridge to begin to vibrate until the central one finally collapsed. From that point on bridges were constructed with spans of varying size. (David Ludlum)
1941 World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1942 First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French. While meeting with Winston Churchill in North Africa at the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt addressed the French People on North Africa Invasion asking for their support.
1943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1946 The first U.S. coin-operated television to be publicly exhibited was displayed in New York City. It operated when a 25-cent coin was inserted. The receiver, named the Tradio-Vision, contained 20 tubes and a 5-in cathode ray tube that reflected a 500-line image on mirror on the lid of its metal cabinet (16-in high, 8-in deep, 9-in wide). The manufacturer was Tradio Inc., of Asbury Park, N.J.
1948 "Studio One"debuted on CBS-TV. An adaptation of the mystery play, "The Storm", became the first production of "Studio One" on CBS-TV. Margaret Sullivan starred -- for $500. "Studio One" continued until 1958. Studio One began as a CBS radio drama anthology show in the mid-1940s until CBS drama supervisor, Worthington Miner translated it to television. Its first production was an adaptation by Miner of "The Storm" (7 November 1948). Miner's control emphasised certain "quality" characteristics: adaptation (usually of classical works, e.g. Julius Caesar, 1948) and innovation ("Battleship Bismarck," 1949).
1951 At 7 AM a blinding flash, a huge ball of fire, and a terrific roar occurred over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, caused by a disintegrating meteor. Windows were broken in and near Hinton OK by the concussion. (The Weather Channel)
1956 Elvis Presley hit the charts with "Love Me." "Heartbreak Hotel," his first single, rose to number one and, aided by some national television appearances, helped make Elvis an instant superstar. "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" was a number one follow-up; the double-sided monster "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel" was one of the biggest-selling singles the industry had ever experienced up to that point. Albums and EPs were also chart-toppers, not just in the U.S., but throughout the world. By late 1956, his first Hollywood movie, Love Me Tender, had been released. Love Me, written by Leiber and Stoller was released on September 1, 1956.
1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1962 Richard Nixon confronts news reporters in Los Angeles. Richard Nixon told news reporters in Los Angeles "...just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Nixon's statement came the day after he lost the election for California governor to incumbent Edmund G. Brown. In 1968, Nixon re-entered politics and won the presidency, defeating Hubert H. Humphrey.
1963 First black AL MVP-Elston Howard, NY Yankees. C Elston Howard becomes the first black ever voted American League MVP. New York's Howard tops Detroit's Al Kaline 248 to 148. He was AL MVP in 1963, as much for his leadership as for his .287 BA, 28 homers and 85 RBI. He led the Yankees to their fourth straight pennant in a year when Maris and Mantle were often out with injuries.
1964 "Baby Love" by the Supremes topped the charts. The Motown songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote this innocent song about teenage love. They wrote 10 US Top-10 hits for The Supremes. "Baby Love" was The Supremes first and only song to reach #1 in the UK. The Supremes were the first girl-group to have a #1 hit in Britain. It turned out to be the Supremes only UK #1, though they had many more in the US.
1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 Richard G. Hatcher became on January 1, 1968 , the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana. He had won election the previous November as one of the first black mayors elected in a northern industrial city and the first in the state of Indiana.
1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB initially collaborated with the pre-existing National Educational Television network, but in 1969 decided to start its own network, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which signed on officially in October of 1970.
1970 "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" was released by Columbia
1972 Nixon re-elected president. Richard Nixon defeats Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) and is re-elected President of the United States.
With only 55 percent of the electorate voting, the lowest turnout since 1948, Nixon carried all states but Massachusetts, taking 97 percent of the electoral votes. During the campaign, Nixon pledged to secure "peace with honor" in Vietnam. Aided by the potential for a peace agreement in the ongoing Paris negotiations and the upswing in the American economy, Nixon easily defeated McGovern, an outspoken peacenik whose party was divided over several issues, not the least of which was McGovern's extreme views on the war. McGovern had said during the campaign, "If I were President, it would take me twenty-four hours and the stroke of a pen to terminate all military operations in Southeast Asia." He said he would withdraw all American troops within 90 days of taking office, whether or not U.S. prisoners of war were released. To many Americans, including many Democrats, McGovern's position was tantamount to total capitulation in Southeast Asia. Given this radical alternative, Nixon seemed a better choice to most voters.
In other races, the Democrats widened their majority in Congress, picking up two Senate seats. Almost unnoticed during the presidential campaign was the arrest of five men connected with Nixon's re-election committee who had broken into the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate scandal ultimately proved to be Nixon's undoing, and he resigned the presidency as a result of it in August 1974.
1973 The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 NJ becomes first state to allow girls into the little league. A ruling by Sylvia Pressler, hearing examiner for the New Jersey Civil Rights Division on November 7, 1973, was later upheld in the Superior Court, leading to Little League Baseball's admittance of girls into its programs. Until then, Little League regulations had prohibited girls from participating, and the change led to greater opportunities, such as those for the 10 girls who played on teams that have reached the Little League Baseball World Series.
1975 "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC. American war hero Steve Trevor is downed over the Bermuda Triangle and lands on "Paradise Island", home of the Amazons. The Amazons hold a contest and choose a champion among them - Wonder Woman - who will return with Steve Trevor to America and remain there to fight the Nazi threat.
1976 "Gone With the Wind" was aired (over two nights) on NBC-TV . The showing was the highest-rated TV show in history. Sixty-five percent of all viewers turned on their sets to watch Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
1981 Judge overturnes Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's conviction. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a ferocious middleweight boxer in the mid-1960s when he was imprisoned for a murder that he did not commit. Over several years, the group and Carter's lawyers fought for hearings to show that Carter had been denied a right to a fair trial. Finally, on November 7, 1985, Federal District Judge H. Lee Sarokin freed Carter after Sarokin wrote that the convictions were based on racial prejudices and not facts.
1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1986 - An early season blizzard struck the Northern Plains Region. North Dakota took the brunt of the storm with wind gusts to 70 mph, and snowfall totals ranged up to 25 inches at Devils Lake. (Storm Data)
1986 The longest high school football winning streak comes to an end. Canyon High of Canyon Country California, lost 21-20 to Antelope Valley High of nearby Lancaster. Canyon High had 46 consecutive wins before this loss.
1987 - Heavy snow fell across parts of eastern New York State overnight, with twelve inches reported at the town of Piseco, located in the Mohawk Valley. A storm in the southwestern U.S. left nine inches of snow at the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado. Smoke from forest fires reduced visibilities to less than a mile at some locations from North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1987 "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany topped the charts.
1988 - Unseasonably warm weather continued across the state of Texas. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Waco and Del Rio with readings of 92 degrees. McAllen was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 96 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
1989 Shortly after daybreak strong thunderstorms developed over a narrow, but almost stationary, east-west band across New Orleans, in southeastern Louisiana. As a result, heavy rains persisted over the same area until mid afternoon before tapering off, and triggered flash flooding across a five county area. Eight to twelve inch rains deluged the area between 9 AM and 6 PM, and totals for the 48 hour period ending at 7 AM on the 8th ranged up to 19.78 inches, between Lake Lexy and Lake Borgne. Approximately 6000 homes in the area reported water damage. The rainfall total for November of 19.81 inches at New Orleans was their highest total for any given month of the year. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 The U.S. spacecraft Global Surveyor lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a 435-million-mile journey to Mars.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2006 Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting
Births
1804 William Crosswell, hymnist, in Hudson, New York (d. 9 Nov 1851, Boston, Massachusetts).
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/r/o/crosswell_w.htm
1828 Joseph Henry Thayer Boston, Massachussets. After pastoring in the Congregatinal church for five years (1859-1864), Thayer went into teaching and was affiliated with Harvard his remaining eighteen years (1883-1902). Thayer's main interest was New Testament Greek. In 1886 he published his definitive Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, a work which established Thayer's reputation as a Biblical scholar. The work was the English language standard in New Testament lexicons until 1957, when Bauer's lexicon was translated from German. Thayer served on the revision committees of both the English Revised Version and the American Standard Version of the New Testament. He was also responsible, perhaps more than any other individual, for the founding of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Thayer
1832 Andrew Dickson White (d 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University and its first president.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Dickson_White
1847 Will L. Thompson, American songwriter. With a major interest in sacred music, Thompson's pen has left the Church two enduring hymns: "Jesus is All the World to Me" and "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling." (d 1909)
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/t/h/o/thompson_wl.htm
1852 John Cawood (b. 18 Mar 1775), hymnist.
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/a/w/cawood_j.htm
1854 Peter Sorenson Vig, Danish Lutheran leader in America, at Egtved, near Kolding, Denmark (d. 21 Mar 1929).
1861 Jeff Milton (d 1947), born Jeff Davis Milton, Old West lawman, Texas Ranger and the son of Confederate Florida governor John Milton.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Milton
1879 William King Baggot (d 1948) American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Baggot
1879 Leon Trotsky (d 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War, he was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
1883 Solomon Lightfoot Michaux (d 1968) evangelist, hosted the TV show Elder Michaux, a religious TV show on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. The show was 30 minutes long, originated at DuMont station WTTG in Washington, D. C., and aired from October 17, 1948 to January 9, 1949. The program was among the earliest U.S. television shows with an African American host.
1890 Jan Matulka (d 1972) Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.
1897 Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (d 1953) American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott, said that Herman Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay. It was the only award Citizen Kane received.
1906 Eugene Carson Blake, American Presbyterian clergyman, in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 31 July 1985).
1914 Archie Campbell (d 1987) writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running country-flavored television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s.
1918 William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. KBE, American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, he has been a spiritual adviser to twelve United States presidents going back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist. He rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. It is said that Graham has preached in person to more people around the world than any other preacher in history. According to his staff, as of 1993 more than 2.5 million people had "stepped forward at his crusades to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior". As of 2008, Graham's lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin_Graham%2C_Jr.
1922 Al Hirt (d 1999) American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn (1963). His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'. Al was a member of The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. (d 1999)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hirt
1928 Norton David Zinder American biologist and molecular geneticist who studied a species of Salmonella (bacteria that cause illnesses such as typhoid fever or food poisoning in humans and other warm- blooded animals). He discovered genetic transduction, or transfer of genetic information by viruses. Genetic material is transferred from one bacterial cell to another by means of a phage, or a virus that invades the bacterial cell, assumes control over the cell's genetic material, reproduces, then eventually destroys the cell. His discovery of this genetic transfer has led to further studies into the mapping and behavior of genes found in bacteria. Daniel Nathans in collaboration with Zinder in 1962 demonstrated that RNA from a bacterial virus directed the synthesis by cell extracts of viral coat protein.
1928 Richard Gordon Scott American nuclear engineer and a current member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Currently, he is the seventh most senior apostle among the ranks of the church.
1930 Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone.
1938 Dee Clark (d 1990) African-American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the ballad "Raindrops," which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961
1938 James Lee "Jim" Kaat Zeeland, Michigan, nicknamed "Kitty", is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators (I)/Minnesota Twins (1959–1973), Chicago White Sox (1973–1975), Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1979), New York Yankees (1979–1980), and St. Louis Cardinals (1980–1983).
1942 Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, New York) American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. His styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material. Rivers's greatest success came in the mid and late 1960s with a string of hit songs (including "Seventh Son", "Poor Side of Town", "Summer Rain", and "Secret Agent Man"), but he has continued to record and perform to the present
1943 Andrew Michael Spence American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows and market development. He conducted this research while at Harvard University. In the current technological environment—with ever more abundant information flows about market development, prices, profit margins, investment instruments and rates of return—their work is more relevant than ever.
1944 Joseph Franklin Niekro (d 2006) American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, the younger brother of pitcher Phil Niekro, and the father of pitcher Lance Niekro. A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio and attended West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia. He batted and threw right-handed. He debuted on April 16, 1967 and went on to play in 22 major league seasons, half with the Houston Astros and the rest with six other teams.
1952 David Howell Petraeus United States Army general who serves as the current Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from September 16, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from January 26, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. He was confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2010, and took over command from temporary commander Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker on July 4, 2010
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1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy (b 1802) American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views.
1873 John Christian Frederick “Father” Heyer (b. 10 Jul 1793), the first American Lutheran missionary to India.
1877 African American mission work of the Synodical Conference began in the South.
1886 Charles Thurber (b 1803) American inventor of the chirographer, an early form of typewriter, patented in 1843. Born in E. Brookfield, Mass., he formed Allen & Thurber (Worcester, Mass) with his brother in law, Ethan Allen to manufacture firearms. On "Thurber's Patent Printer", patented 1843, the type was mounted on a rotating cylindrical drum. As Scientific American described it, "the paper was secured to the drum, and was brought into the proper place under the type bar guide. The type wheel was revolved until the desired lever came over the guide. The key was then forced down with the finger, and the character was printed." Thurber also patented a different machine which he called the Chirographer, but the machine was far too slow to substitute for hand writing.
1962 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (b 1884) First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.
In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.[1]
1923 Michael Joseph Owens (b 1859) American glass manufacturer who invented the automatic glass bottle making machine that revolutionized the industry.
1942 Rudolf Pintner (b 1884) Anglo-American psychologist who combined interests in mental measurements and education of people with disabilities. His performance assessment measures supplied half of the items of the World War I Army Beta Test. He directed many surveys in his field and wrote a number of scientific works. A Scale of Performance Tests (1917) by Rudolf Pintner and Donald G. Paterson, introduced the Pintner-Paterson Performance Test, the first test of nonverbal intelligence. It was intended as a "supplemental" test to the 1908 Binet battery (which they criticized as unwarrantably favorable to the verbal aspects of individual intelligence). They insisted that there was more than one aspect of intelligence and more than one way of measuring it.
1944 Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1967 John Nance Garner IV, nicknamed "Cactus Jack" (b 1868), 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1931–33) and the 32nd Vice President of the United States (1933–41).
1978 James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (b 1897) world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight. Tunney retired as an undefeated heavyweight after his victory over Tom Heeney in 1928.
1980 Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (b 1930) American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world. Although McQueen was combative with directors and producers, his popularity put him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
2003 Donald Redfield Griffin (b 1915) American biophysicist, known for his research in animal navigation, animal behaviour, and sensory biophysics. With Robert Galambos, he studied bat echolocation (1938), a term he coined (1944) for how the bat's ears replace eyes in flight guidance. Using specialized high-frequency sound equipment by G.W. Pierce, they found that bats in flight produced ultrasonic sounds used to avoid obstacles. In WW II, he used physiological principles to design such military equipment as cold-weather clothing and headphones. Griffin also worked extensively on bird navigation. In the late 1940s, he flew in a Piper Cub to observe the flight paths of gannets and gulls. In his career, he pioneered rigorous techniques to study animals in their natural environment
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St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt. Galesius near Ephesus (1054)
Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and forty children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra (363)
Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh) 1937
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680 The Third Council of Constantinople opened under Pope Leo II. During its eighteen sessions (held until September 681) the Council condemned Monothelitism (a heresy that taught that Christ's will was only divine and not human).
1535 Martin Luther and Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565), Italian reformer and papal nuncio to King Ferdinand in Germany, discussed a possible council.
1637 Controversial colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson, 46, was convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mrs. Hutchinson afterward relocated in Rhode Island with her family and friends.
1775 John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family. On this day in 1776, Congress chooses Richard Bache to succeed his father-in-law, Benjamin Franklin, as postmaster general. Franklin had sailed for France on behalf of the Continental Congress the previous month.
Benjamin Franklin invested nearly 40 years in the establishment of a reliable system of private communications in the American colonies. He was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737 and then as joint postmaster general of the colonies, a position he held from 1753 to 1774, when he was fired for opening and publishing Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson's correspondence. While postmaster, Franklin streamlined postal delivery with properly surveyed and marked routes from Maine to Florida (this route later became Route 1), instituted overnight postal travel between the critical cities of New York and Philadelphia and created a standardized rate chart based upon weight and distance.
In 1774, Franklin's baton was passed temporarily to William Goddard, a printer. Goddard was frustrated that the royal postal service was unable to reliably deliver his Pennsylvania Chronicle to its readers or critical news for the paper to him. Thus, he laid out a plan for a "Constitutional Post" before the Continental Congress on October 5, 1774. Congress waited to act on the plan until after the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Benjamin Franklin promoted Goddard's plan and served as the first postmaster general under the Continental Congress beginning July 26, 1775, nearly one year before Congress declared independence from the British crown. Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, took over the position on this day in 1776, after Franklin became an American emissary to France.
Samuel Osgood held the postmaster general position in New York City from 1789, when the U.S. Constitution came into effect, until the government moved to Philadelphia in 1791. Timothy Pickering took over then and, about a year later, the passing of the Postal Service Act gave his post greater legislative legitimacy and more effective organization. Pickering continued in the position until 1795, when he briefly served as secretary of war, before becoming the third U.S. secretary of state. The postmaster general's position was considered a plum patronage post for political allies of the president until the Postal Service was transformed into a corporation run by a board of governors in 1971.
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1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
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1793 During the French Revolution, "Christianity" was abolished on this date. Reason was deified, and as many as 2,000 churches were afterward destroyed throughout France.
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1805 Lewis & Clark first sight Pacific Ocean. After crossing the continental divide, and here they encounter the Shoshone, whose chief, by an astounding coincidence, Sacagawea recognizes as her brother.With her help, the expedition purchased 30 horses from the Shoshone and begin the difficult trek through the Bitterroot Mountains, where snow and hunger lengthen the trail. Coming down out of the mountains, they are found by the Nez Perce, who permit them to fell trees for five dugout canoes and set them on course down the Clearwater River. Following the Clearwater to the Snake River and thence to the Columbia, Lewis and Clark come in sight of the Pacific on November 7, 1805. Here they establish their winter quarters, named Fort Clatsop for a nearby Indian tribe.
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1836 The Synod of East Ohio was organized at Somerset, Ohio. It was originally called “The English Synod and Ministerium of Ohio.” In 1840 the synod joined the General Synod, eventually entering the United Lutheran Church.
1837 In Alton, Illinois, Presbyterian minister and abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1847 Carl H. F. Frincke (1824–1905), the first home missionary of the Missouri Synod, was ordained in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1856 The Synod of Southern Illinois was organized at Jonesboro, Illinois.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD in US college (Yale) in physics.
1876 Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College. Meharry Medical College, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a graduate and professional institution affiliated with the United Methodist Church whose mission is to educate healthcare professionals and scientists. Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, it was the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered separately in 1915. It is currently the largest private historically black institution in the United States solely dedicated to educating healthcare professionals and scientists.
1877 African American mission work of the Synodical Conference began in the South.
1880 Nils J. Bakke (1853–1921), pioneer Synodical Conference missionary to African Americans, was ordained.
1893 Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1907 Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1907 Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode. He is killed in the explosion.
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1909 Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. On this day in 1914, while World War I rages in Europe, the first issue of a new weekly magazine, The New Republic, is published in the United States.
The New Republic’s editorial board was presided over by the journalist Herbert Croly, author of the influential 1909 book The Promise of American Life. Impressed by Croly’s arguments for greater economic planning, increased spending on education and the need for a society based on the "brotherhood of mankind"—ideas that were said to have influenced both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson--the heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, the banker and diplomat Williard Straight, approached Croly and asked him to join them in launching a new liberal journal that would provide an intelligent, opinionated examination of politics, foreign affairs and culture. After recruiting his friend and fellow journalist Walter Lippmann, Croly saw the first issue of the new magazine hit the stands on November 7, 1914.
Though its first issue sold only 875 copies, after a year the circulation of The New Republic reached 15,000. Strong supporters of Theodore Roosevelt and his newly formed Progressive Party, the magazine’s editors were wary of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, although they did support Wilson’s proclaimed neutrality at the beginning of World War I. In May 1915, however, a German submarine sank the British passenger ship Lusitania, killing 1,201 passengers and crew members, including 128 Americans. The New Republic began to switch its anti-war position, eventually throwing all its support behind President Wilson’s decision to take the nation to war in April 1917. Walter Lippmann especially grew close to the administration during wartime, working as an assistant to Newton Baker, the president’s secretary of war, and with Colonel Edward House, Wilson’s closest adviser.
In the aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, both Croly and Lippmann became critical of Wilson and the viability of the Versailles peace treaty and the League of Nations. Croly went so far as to call the treaty a "peace of annihilation" in its harsh treatment of Germany and to claim that the League would "perpetuate rather than correct the evils of the treaty." Meanwhile, sales of The New Republic declined from a wartime high of 43,000 and the journal soon was operating at a loss. Lippmann left the magazine in 1920, and in 1930 Croly was replaced as editor. Today the magazine—headquartered in Washington, D.C.—still operates as a weekly journal of opinion, with a subscription rate between 45,000 and 60,000.
1917 World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government. Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd. Nikolai Lenin was named chairman, Leon Trotsky as foreign commissar and Joseph Stalin as commissar of nationalities. This event was celebrated each year in the former USSR with parades, massive military displays and public appearances by top Soviet leaders.
1919 The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports. It was not until 1933, after several battles in the Pennsylvania legislature, that the Sunday lobby generated enough votes to modify the 1794 statute. The new law permitted baseball and football on Sunday afternoons between 2:00 and 5:30 p.m., if the voters of any locality approved. The electorate in Pennsylvania's metropolitan areas voted heavily in favor of Sunday sports at the November 1933 elections.
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1938 The first broadcast of "This Day is Ours", was heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.
1940 - The Galloping Gertie bridge at Tacoma, WA, collapsed in strong winds resulting in a six million dollar loss, just four months after the grand opening of the new bridge. The winds caused the evenly sized spans of the bridge to begin to vibrate until the central one finally collapsed. From that point on bridges were constructed with spans of varying size. (David Ludlum)
1941 World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1946 The first U.S. coin-operated television to be publicly exhibited was displayed in New York City. It operated when a 25-cent coin was inserted. The receiver, named the Tradio-Vision, contained 20 tubes and a 5-in cathode ray tube that reflected a 500-line image on mirror on the lid of its metal cabinet (16-in high, 8-in deep, 9-in wide). The manufacturer was Tradio Inc., of Asbury Park, N.J.
1948 "Studio One"debuted on CBS-TV. An adaptation of the mystery play, "The Storm", became the first production of "Studio One" on CBS-TV. Margaret Sullivan starred -- for $500. "Studio One" continued until 1958. Studio One began as a CBS radio drama anthology show in the mid-1940s until CBS drama supervisor, Worthington Miner translated it to television. Its first production was an adaptation by Miner of "The Storm" (7 November 1948). Miner's control emphasised certain "quality" characteristics: adaptation (usually of classical works, e.g. Julius Caesar, 1948) and innovation ("Battleship Bismarck," 1949).
1951 At 7 AM a blinding flash, a huge ball of fire, and a terrific roar occurred over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, caused by a disintegrating meteor. Windows were broken in and near Hinton OK by the concussion. (The Weather Channel)
1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 Richard G. Hatcher became on January 1, 1968 , the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana. He had won election the previous November as one of the first black mayors elected in a northern industrial city and the first in the state of Indiana.
1970 "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" was released by Columbia
1972 Nixon re-elected president. Richard Nixon defeats Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) and is re-elected President of the United States.
With only 55 percent of the electorate voting, the lowest turnout since 1948, Nixon carried all states but Massachusetts, taking 97 percent of the electoral votes. During the campaign, Nixon pledged to secure "peace with honor" in Vietnam. Aided by the potential for a peace agreement in the ongoing Paris negotiations and the upswing in the American economy, Nixon easily defeated McGovern, an outspoken peacenik whose party was divided over several issues, not the least of which was McGovern's extreme views on the war. McGovern had said during the campaign, "If I were President, it would take me twenty-four hours and the stroke of a pen to terminate all military operations in Southeast Asia." He said he would withdraw all American troops within 90 days of taking office, whether or not U.S. prisoners of war were released. To many Americans, including many Democrats, McGovern's position was tantamount to total capitulation in Southeast Asia. Given this radical alternative, Nixon seemed a better choice to most voters.
In other races, the Democrats widened their majority in Congress, picking up two Senate seats. Almost unnoticed during the presidential campaign was the arrest of five men connected with Nixon's re-election committee who had broken into the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate scandal ultimately proved to be Nixon's undoing, and he resigned the presidency as a result of it in August 1974.
1973 The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 NJ becomes first state to allow girls into the little league. A ruling by Sylvia Pressler, hearing examiner for the New Jersey Civil Rights Division on November 7, 1973, was later upheld in the Superior Court, leading to Little League Baseball's admittance of girls into its programs. Until then, Little League regulations had prohibited girls from participating, and the change led to greater opportunities, such as those for the 10 girls who played on teams that have reached the Little League Baseball World Series.
1981 Judge overturnes Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's conviction. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a ferocious middleweight boxer in the mid-1960s when he was imprisoned for a murder that he did not commit. Over several years, the group and Carter's lawyers fought for hearings to show that Carter had been denied a right to a fair trial. Finally, on November 7, 1985, Federal District Judge H. Lee Sarokin freed Carter after Sarokin wrote that the convictions were based on racial prejudices and not facts.
1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1986 - An early season blizzard struck the Northern Plains Region. North Dakota took the brunt of the storm with wind gusts to 70 mph, and snowfall totals ranged up to 25 inches at Devils Lake. (Storm Data)
1986 The longest high school football winning streak comes to an end. Canyon High of Canyon Country California, lost 21-20 to Antelope Valley High of nearby Lancaster. Canyon High had 46 consecutive wins before this loss.
1987 - Heavy snow fell across parts of eastern New York State overnight, with twelve inches reported at the town of Piseco, located in the Mohawk Valley. A storm in the southwestern U.S. left nine inches of snow at the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado. Smoke from forest fires reduced visibilities to less than a mile at some locations from North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1987 "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany topped the charts.
1988 - Unseasonably warm weather continued across the state of Texas. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Waco and Del Rio with readings of 92 degrees. McAllen was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 96 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
1989 Shortly after daybreak strong thunderstorms developed over a narrow, but almost stationary, east-west band across New Orleans, in southeastern Louisiana. As a result, heavy rains persisted over the same area until mid afternoon before tapering off, and triggered flash flooding across a five county area. Eight to twelve inch rains deluged the area between 9 AM and 6 PM, and totals for the 48 hour period ending at 7 AM on the 8th ranged up to 19.78 inches, between Lake Lexy and Lake Borgne. Approximately 6000 homes in the area reported water damage. The rainfall total for November of 19.81 inches at New Orleans was their highest total for any given month of the year. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 The U.S. spacecraft Global Surveyor lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a 435-million-mile journey to Mars.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2006 Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting
Births
1804 William Crosswell, hymnist, in Hudson, New York (d. 9 Nov 1851, Boston, Massachusetts).
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1828 Joseph Henry Thayer Boston, Massachussets. After pastoring in the Congregatinal church for five years (1859-1864), Thayer went into teaching and was affiliated with Harvard his remaining eighteen years (1883-1902). Thayer's main interest was New Testament Greek. In 1886 he published his definitive Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, a work which established Thayer's reputation as a Biblical scholar. The work was the English language standard in New Testament lexicons until 1957, when Bauer's lexicon was translated from German. Thayer served on the revision committees of both the English Revised Version and the American Standard Version of the New Testament. He was also responsible, perhaps more than any other individual, for the founding of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Thayer
1832 Andrew Dickson White (d 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University and its first president.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Dickson_White
1847 Will L. Thompson, American songwriter. With a major interest in sacred music, Thompson's pen has left the Church two enduring hymns: "Jesus is All the World to Me" and "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling." (d 1909)
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/t/h/o/thompson_wl.htm
1852 John Cawood (b. 18 Mar 1775), hymnist.
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/a/w/cawood_j.htm
1854 Peter Sorenson Vig, Danish Lutheran leader in America, at Egtved, near Kolding, Denmark (d. 21 Mar 1929).
1861 Jeff Milton (d 1947), born Jeff Davis Milton, Old West lawman, Texas Ranger and the son of Confederate Florida governor John Milton.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Milton
1879 William King Baggot (d 1948) American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Baggot
1879 Leon Trotsky (d 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War, he was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
1883 Solomon Lightfoot Michaux (d 1968) evangelist, hosted the TV show Elder Michaux, a religious TV show on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. The show was 30 minutes long, originated at DuMont station WTTG in Washington, D. C., and aired from October 17, 1948 to January 9, 1949. The program was among the earliest U.S. television shows with an African American host.
1890 Jan Matulka (d 1972) Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.
1897 Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (d 1953) American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott, said that Herman Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay. It was the only award Citizen Kane received.
1906 Eugene Carson Blake, American Presbyterian clergyman, in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 31 July 1985).
1914 Archie Campbell (d 1987) writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running country-flavored television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s.
1918 William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. KBE, American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, he has been a spiritual adviser to twelve United States presidents going back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist. He rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. It is said that Graham has preached in person to more people around the world than any other preacher in history. According to his staff, as of 1993 more than 2.5 million people had "stepped forward at his crusades to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior". As of 2008, Graham's lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion.
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1922 Al Hirt (d 1999) American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn (1963). His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'. Al was a member of The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. (d 1999)
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1928 Norton David Zinder American biologist and molecular geneticist who studied a species of Salmonella (bacteria that cause illnesses such as typhoid fever or food poisoning in humans and other warm- blooded animals). He discovered genetic transduction, or transfer of genetic information by viruses. Genetic material is transferred from one bacterial cell to another by means of a phage, or a virus that invades the bacterial cell, assumes control over the cell's genetic material, reproduces, then eventually destroys the cell. His discovery of this genetic transfer has led to further studies into the mapping and behavior of genes found in bacteria. Daniel Nathans in collaboration with Zinder in 1962 demonstrated that RNA from a bacterial virus directed the synthesis by cell extracts of viral coat protein.
1928 Richard Gordon Scott American nuclear engineer and a current member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Currently, he is the seventh most senior apostle among the ranks of the church.
1930 Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone.
1938 Dee Clark (d 1990) African-American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the ballad "Raindrops," which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961
1938 James Lee "Jim" Kaat Zeeland, Michigan, nicknamed "Kitty", is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators (I)/Minnesota Twins (1959–1973), Chicago White Sox (1973–1975), Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1979), New York Yankees (1979–1980), and St. Louis Cardinals (1980–1983).
1942 Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, New York) American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. His styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material. Rivers's greatest success came in the mid and late 1960s with a string of hit songs (including "Seventh Son", "Poor Side of Town", "Summer Rain", and "Secret Agent Man"), but he has continued to record and perform to the present
1943 Andrew Michael Spence American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows and market development. He conducted this research while at Harvard University. In the current technological environment—with ever more abundant information flows about market development, prices, profit margins, investment instruments and rates of return—their work is more relevant than ever.
1944 Joseph Franklin Niekro (d 2006) American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, the younger brother of pitcher Phil Niekro, and the father of pitcher Lance Niekro. A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio and attended West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia. He batted and threw right-handed. He debuted on April 16, 1967 and went on to play in 22 major league seasons, half with the Houston Astros and the rest with six other teams.
1952 David Howell Petraeus United States Army general who serves as the current Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from September 16, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from January 26, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. He was confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2010, and took over command from temporary commander Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker on July 4, 2010
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1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy (b 1802) American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views.
1873 John Christian Frederick “Father” Heyer (b. 10 Jul 1793), the first American Lutheran missionary to India.
1877 African American mission work of the Synodical Conference began in the South.
1962 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (b 1884) First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.
In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.[1]
1923 Michael Joseph Owens (b 1859) American glass manufacturer who invented the automatic glass bottle making machine that revolutionized the industry.
1942 Rudolf Pintner (b 1884) Anglo-American psychologist who combined interests in mental measurements and education of people with disabilities. His performance assessment measures supplied half of the items of the World War I Army Beta Test. He directed many surveys in his field and wrote a number of scientific works. A Scale of Performance Tests (1917) by Rudolf Pintner and Donald G. Paterson, introduced the Pintner-Paterson Performance Test, the first test of nonverbal intelligence. It was intended as a "supplemental" test to the 1908 Binet battery (which they criticized as unwarrantably favorable to the verbal aspects of individual intelligence). They insisted that there was more than one aspect of intelligence and more than one way of measuring it.
1944 Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1967 John Nance Garner IV, nicknamed "Cactus Jack" (b 1868), 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1931–33) and the 32nd Vice President of the United States (1933–41).
1978 James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (b 1897) world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight. Tunney retired as an undefeated heavyweight after his victory over Tom Heeney in 1928.
1980 Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (b 1930) American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world. Although McQueen was combative with directors and producers, his popularity put him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
Christian Feast Day:
Herculanus of Perugia
Prosdocimus
Vicente Liem de la Paz
Willibrord
November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt. Galesius near Ephesus (1054)
Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and forty children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra (363)
Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh) 1937
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