This Day in History

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Right on, brother.

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Funny thing about history, there's a shitload of details.

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October 27

Today, the United States celebrates Navy Day. Maybe.

Today is also recognized internationally as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

There are 58 days until Christmas.

Events

312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic.

1936 – Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

1964 - 31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years.

1969 - Muddy Waters was seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident.

1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.

1977 - American musician Roy Estrada known as a founding member of Little Feat and who also worked with Frank Zappa was convicted of sexual assault on a child. Estrada served six years in prison. In January 2012, he pleaded guilty to a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child which happened in March 2008. In the plea bargain agreement, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until he is 93 years old.

1980 - Former T. Rex member Steve Took, choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was 31 years old.

1980 - Mark David Chapman bought a five-shot .38 Special handgun for $169. A little over six weeks later, he would use the gun to kill John Lennon outside Lennon's New York City apartment.

1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.

2003 - Scott Weiland singer with Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California, after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug tests.

2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick, which started on June 20, 2002, after 12 years, four months, and seven days.

Births

1782 – Niccolò Paganini; 1811 – Isaac Singer (founded the Singer Corporation); 1854 – William Alexander Smith (founded the Boys' Brigade); 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt (26th POTUS); 1872 – Emily Post; 1908 – Lee Krasner; 1910 – Jack Carson; 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow; 1914 – Dylan Thomas ("Rage, rage against the dying of the light".); 1918 – Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver); 1920 – Nanette Fabray♪ ♫; 1922 – Ruby Dee; 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein; 1923 – Ned Wertimer (the doorman looking for a tip on The Jeffersons); 1926 – H. R. Haldeman; 1932 – Sylvia Plath; 1933 – Floyd Cramer; 1939 – John Cleese(Monty Python); 1940 – John 'The Teflon Don' Gotti (mob boss); 1941 – Dick Trickle; 1942 – Lee Greenwood♪ ♫; 1945 – Carrie Snodgress; 1946 – Ivan Reitman; 1949 – Garry Tallent(Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band); 1950 – Fran Lebowitz; 1951 – K. K. Downing(Judas Priest); 1951 – Jayne Kennedy; 1952 – Roberto Benigni; 1953 – Robert Picardo (the 'Emergency Medical Hologram' on Star Trek: Voyager); 1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson (co-creator The Nanny); 1958 – Simon Le Bon♪ ♫(Duran Duran); 1963 – Marla Maples[Say what you will about the Donald, the man has stellar taste in women.]; 1967 – Scott Weiland♪ ♫(Stone Temple Pilots); 1984 – Kelly Osbourne

Deaths

939 – Æthelstan; 1975 – Rex Stout; 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took(Tyrannosaurus Rex, not to be confused with the band T. Rex); 1990 – Xavier Cugat; 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi; 1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr.; 2002 – Tom Dowd♪ ♫(record producer); 2003 – Rod Roddy ("Come on down!"); 2013 – Lou Reed♪ ♫(The Velvet Underground)

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October 28

456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), and the town's churches are burnt to the ground.

1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.

1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. The first ticker tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the statue is dedicated.

1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.

1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

1956 – Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months.

1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration.

1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.

2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s/1940s are reburied.

2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.

Births

1793 – Eliphalet Remington; 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo; 1897 – Edith Head; 1902 – Elsa Lanchester; 1903 – Evelyn Waugh; 1909 – Francis Bacon; 1914 – Jonas Salk; 1917 – Jack Soo; 1926 – Bowie Kuhn; 1929 – Joan Plowright; 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone; 1936 – Charlie Daniels; 1939 – Jane Alexander; 1941 – Hank Marvin; 1944 – Dennis Franz; 1948 – Telma Hopkins; 1952 – Annie Potts; 1955 – Bill Gate$; 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; 1962 – Daphne Zuniga; 1963 – Lauren Holly; 1963 – Sheryl Underwood; 1965 – Jami Gertz; 1966 – Matt Drudge; 1966 – Andy Richter; 1967 – Julia Roberts; 1969 – Ben Harper; 1972 – Brad Paisley; 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix; 1978 – Justin Guarini; 1987 – Frank Ocean

Deaths

1704 – John Locke; 1970 – Baby Huey; 1998 – Ted Hughes; 2006 – Red Auerbach; 2006 – Trevor Berbick; 2007 – Porter Wagoner

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October 29

Today is National Cat Day in the United States, so, pet your pussy.

World Stroke Day is observed today.

There are 56 days until Christmas.

Events

539 BC – Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.

1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.

1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident. He was three weeks shy of his 25th birthday.

1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

1983 - Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon marked its 491st week on the Billboard album chart in the US, surpassing the previous record holder, 'Johnny's Greatest Hits' by Johnny Mathis. When it finally fell off of list in October 1988, 'Dark Side' had set a record of 741 weeks on the chart.

1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).

1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.

2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

2014 - Phil Collins handed over his large collection of Alamo memorabilia to a Texas museum, calling the donation the end of a six-decade "journey". "I'm 64," he said of his fascination with the 1836 battle. "When I was five or six years old, this thing began." Collins' collection included a fringed leather pouch used by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's legendary knife.

Births

1897 – Joseph Goebbels; 1899 – Akim Tamiroff; 1925 – Dominick Dunne; 1937 – Sonny Osborne♪ ♫(The Osborne Bros); 1938 – Ralph Bakshi; 1942 – Bob Ross; 1944 – Denny Laine(The Moody Blues); 1945 – Mick Gallagher; 1946 – Peter Green(Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers); 1947 – Richard Dreyfuss; 1948 – Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels); 1955 – Kevin DuBrow♪ ♫(Quiet Riot); 1955 – Roger O'Donnell(The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins, and Berlin); 1957 – Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson, "Grampa" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman on The Simpsons); 1961 – Randy Jackson♪ ♫(The Jacksons); 1967 – Joely Fisher; 1971 – Winona Ryder; 1972 – Gabrielle Union; 1981 – Amanda Beard

Deaths

1618 – Walter Raleigh; 1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest; 1901 – Leon Czolgosz (American assassin of William McKinley); 1911 – Joseph Pulitzer (founded Pulitzer, Inc.); 1957 – Louis B. Mayer; 1963 – Adolphe Menjou; 1971 – Duane Allman(The Allman Brothers Band, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys); 1987 – Woody Herman♪ ♫; 1995 – Terry Southern; 1997 – Anton LaVey; 2011 – Jimmy Savile (British kiddie fiddler)

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I was at a wedding last night where the matron of honor's speech was based around "marriage is some good things and some bad things, and you can illustrate this by looking at some humorously good and bad things that happened on your wedding date in history..." I was thinking about this thread the whole time.

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October 30

Today is International Orthopedic Nurses Day.

Tonight is Mischief Night, it is also Beggars' Night, as well as Devil's Night.

There are 55 days until Christmas.

Events

637 – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.

1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.

1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts: A banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men and 281 guns, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers with 2 guns, commanded by General Antoine Lassalle. Romberg was sentenced to life in prison for the surrender.

1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1864 – Helena, capitol city of Montana, is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".

1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma.

1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.

1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.

1944 – Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color line.

1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.

1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.

1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.

1965 – Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, US Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

1970 - Jim Morrison of The Doors was fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a gig in Miami.

1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali wins by KO in the eighth round, regaining the title of World Heavyweight Champion and giving Foreman his first professional defeat.

1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.

1993 – The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.

1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

1998 - All four original members of Black Sabbath reunited momentarily to play 'Paranoid' on US TV's David Letterman Show.

2002 - Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC was murdered by an assassin's single bullet at his recording studio in Queens, New York.

2004 - An arrest warrant was issued for Motley Crue singer Vince Neil after he allegedly knocked a soundman unconscious during a concert. Neil was said to have punched Michael Talbert in the face at Gilley's nightclub in Dallas after he asked the soundman for more volume on his guitar but attacked Talbert as he adjusted it, leaving him unconscious for 45 seconds.

2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

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Births

1735 – John Adams (2nd POTUS); 1748 – Martha Jefferson (3rd FLOTUS); 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette (namesake of Tourette's syndrome); 1882 – William 'Bull' Halsey, Jr.; 1885 – Ezra Pound; 1893 – Charles Atlas; 1896 – Ruth Gordon (Every Which Way but Loose, Any Which Way You Can); 1896 – Harry Randall Truman (lived and died on Mt. St. Helens, owner/operator Mount St. Helens Lodge); 1911 – Ruth Hussey; 1915 – Fred W. Friendly (former president CBS News, originated the concept of public access cable channels); 1932 – Louis Malle; 1939 - Eddie Holland♪ ♫ (songwriter w/Holland/Dozier/Holland); 1939 – Grace Slick♪ ♫(Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship); 1941 – Otis Williams♪ ♫(The Temptations); 1945 – Henry Winkler; 1946 – Chris Slade(AC/DC); 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit(Eagles, Poco); 1951 – Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.; 1951 – Harry Hamlin; 1953 – Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables); 1957 – Kevin Pollak; 1961 – Larry Wilmore; 1965 – Gavin Rossdale♪ ♫(Bush); 1968 – Ken Stringfellow(R.E.M., The Posies); 1970 – Tory Belleci (MythBusters); 1970 – Nia Long; 1981 – Ivanka Trump

Deaths

1912 – James S. Sherman (27th VPOTUS); 1965 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.; 1979 – Barnes Wallis (invented the Bouncing bomb); 1997 – Samuel Fuller (director The Big Red One); 2000 – Steve Allen; 2002 – Jam Master Jay♪ ♫(Run-D.M.C.); 2007 – Robert Goulet♪ ♫; 2015 – Al Molinaro (Happy Days, The Odd Couple)

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October 31

On this day (approximate) in 2011 the world population reached 7,000,000,000.

Samhain (in the Northern Hemisphere), and Beltane (in the Southern Hemisphere) begin at sunset today.

Today is Girl Scouts Founder's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Juliette Low, who started the Girl Scouts Movement in 1912.

World Savings Day was established on this date in 1924, at the first International Savings Bank Congress in Italy.

And, of course, today is Halloween.

Events

475 – Romulus Augustus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.

683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is destroyed.

802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos.

1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

1861 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.

1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.

1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States.

1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".

1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures.

1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.

1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.

1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.

1952 - Pianist Johnnie Johnson hired 26 year old Chuck Berry as a guitarist in his band. While playing evening gigs in the St. Louis area, Berry kept his day job as a hairdresser for the next three years.

1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Vladimir Lenin's Tomb.

1963 – An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.

1964 - Ray Charles was arrested by Logan Airport customs officials in Boston and charged with possession of heroin. This was his third drug charge, following incidents in 1958 and 1961. Charles avoided prison after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles, but spent a year on parole in 1966.

1968 – Vietnam War: October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.

1973 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.

1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.

1986 - Roger Waters went to the high court to try and stop David Gilmour and Nick Mason from using the name 'Pink Floyd', for future touring and recording.

1989 - The very first MTV Unplugged show was recorded in New York, featuring UK band Squeeze, the program was aired on Nov. 26, 1989.

1990 - During a show in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumped 600 dead fish in Faith No More's dressing room. They responded by walking on stage, naked during Idol's set.

1993 - River Phoenix collapses and dies (of combined drug intoxication) on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room. He was 23 years old.

1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

1999 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.

2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.

Births

1795 – John Keats; 1848 – Boston Custer (George Armostrong Custer's baby bro); 1860 – Juliette Gordon Low (founded Girl Scouts); 1887 – Chiang Kai-shek; 1912 – Dale Evans; 1922 – Barbara Bel Geddes ('Miss Ellie' on Dallas); 1926 – Jimmy Savile (kiddie fiddler); 1930 – Michael Collins; 1931 – Dan Rather; 1936 – Michael Landon; 1937 - Tom Paxton♪ ♫; 1939 – Ron Rifkin; 1942 – David Ogden Stiers ('Charles Emerson Winchester III' on M*A*S*H); 1943 – Brian Piccolo (subject of movie Brian's Song); 1944 – Sally Kirkland; 1945 – Russ Ballard♪ ♫(Argent); 1945 – Brian Doyle-Murray (older brother to Bill Murray); 1946 – Stephen Rea (The Crying Game Snicker, surprise!); 1947 – Deidre Hall; 1950 – John Candy (Planes, Trains, And Automobiles); 1950 – Jane Pauley; 1952 – Bernard Edwards(Chic); 1954 – Ken Wahl; 1960 – Reza Pahlavi (son of the Shah of Iran); 1961 – Peter Jackson; 1963 – Mikkey Dee(Motörhead, Scorpions, King Diamond, Don Dokken, Thin Lizzy); 1963 – Johnny Marr(The Smiths); 1963 – Dermot Mulroney; 1963 – Rob Schneider; 1964 – Darryl Worley♪ ♫; 1966 – Ad-Rock♪ ♫(Beastie Boys); 1967 – Vanilla Ice; 1967 – Adam Schlesinger(Fountains of Wayne); 1970 – Mitch Harris♪ ♫(Napalm Death); 1970 – Johnny Moeller(The Fabulous Thunderbirds); 1970 – Rogers Stevens(Blind Melon); 1980 – Eddie Kaye Thomas ('Finch' in American Pie movies); 1981 – Frank Iero(My Chemical Romance)

Deaths

1879 – Joseph Hooker; 1926 – Harry Houdini; 1984 – Indira Gandhi; 1988 – John Houseman ("They make money the old-fashioned way. They earn it."); 1993 – Federico Fellini; 1993 - River Phoenix; 1995 – Rosalind Cash♪ ♫; 2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr.; 2002 – Raf Vallone; 2003 – Richard Neustadt; 2006 – P. W. Botha; 2008 – Studs Terkel; 2014 – Jim Sauter

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November 1

There are 6 days until the 2016 Presidential election.

There are 53 days until Christmas.

There are 60 days remaining in 2016.

Today is National Brush Day in the U.S.

World Vegan Day is celebrated today, commemorating the Chevrolet Vega, a compact car from the early to mid 70s.

Events

1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1611 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.

1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.

1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.

1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.

1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.

1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

Births

1838 – 11th Dalai Lama; 1871 – Stephen Crane; 1935 – Gary Player; 1937 – Whisperin' Bill Anderson; 1940 – Barry Sadler; 1941 – Robert Foxworth; 1942 – Larry Flynt; 1942 – Marcia Wallace; 1944 – Kinky Friedman; 1951 – Ronald Bell; 1957 – Lyle Lovett; 1960 – Tim Cook; 1963 – Rick Allen; 1964 – Sophie B. Hawkins

Deaths

1924 – Bill Tilghman; 1952 – Dixie Lee; 1955 – Dale Carnegie; 1972 – Ezra Pound; 1985 – Phil Silvers; 1994 – Noah Beery, Jr.; 1999 – Walter Payton; 2005 – Skitch Henderson; 2006 – William Styron; 2008 – Yma Sumac; 2014 – Wayne Static; 2015 – Fred Thompson

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Apologies for the abbreviated nature of today's post, and the lack of linkage.

A friend's girlfriend called and the friend is in jail, on the other side of the damn state, and needs bail money. A fair amount of it, too.

See you guys tomorrow.

[glatt]

You're a good friend

[Undertoad]

Been there sir, good on ya

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, no, no, my policy is never give nobody nothin'.

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November 2

Today is observed as International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

Today is also Statehood Day for North and South Dakota, in the United States.

There are 5 days until the 2016 Presidential election.

There are 59 days remaining in 2016.

There are 52 days until Christmas.

Events

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given 'more optimistic' reports on the progress of the war.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

1984 - The Rev Marvin Gay Sr. was sentenced to a suspended six-year sentence and probation for the manslaughter of his son, Marvin Gaye. He later died at a nursing home in 1998.

1984 – Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

2002 - Armed police arrested an international gang who were planning to kidnap former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her two young children. The gang had planned to ransom Posh for £5m.

Births

1734 – Daniel Boone; 1755 – Marie Antoinette; 1795 – James K. Polk (11th POTUS); 1865 – Warren G. Harding (29th POTUS); 1913 – Burt Lancaster; 1914 – Ray Walston(My Favorite Martian; 1919 – Warren Stevens; 1927 – Steve Ditko (co-creator Spider Man); 1929 – Amar Bose (founded the Bose Corporation); 1936 – Jack Starrett; 1938 – Pat Buchanan; 1942 – Stefanie Powers; 1944 – Keith Emerson♪ ♫; 1945 – J. D. Souther♪ ♫; 1952 – Maxine Nightingale♪ ♫; 1961 – k.d. lang♪ ♫; 1963 – Bobby Dall(Poison); 1966 – David Schwimmer; 1967 – Scott Walker; 1974 – Nelly♪ ♫

Deaths

1887 – Jenny Lind♪ ♫; 1961 – James Thurber (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty); 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt♪ ♫; 1970 – Pierre Veyron(namesake of the Bugatti Veyron); 1991 – Irwin Allen; 1992 – Hal Roach; 2007 – The Fabulous Moolah; 2015 – Tommy Overstreet♪ ♫