Right on, brother.

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

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:violin:; 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:artist:; 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:artist:; 1923 – Ned Wertimer (the doorman looking for a tip on The Jeffersons); 1926 – H. R. Haldeman; 1932 – Sylvia Plath; 1933 – Floyd Cramer:keys:; 1939 – John Cleese:devil:(Monty Python); 1940 – John 'The Teflon Don' Gotti (mob boss); 1941 – Dick Trickle:driving:; 1942 – Lee Greenwood♪ ♫; 1945 – Carrie Snodgress; 1946 – Ivan Reitman; 1949 – Garry Tallent:bass:(Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band); 1950 – Fran Lebowitz; 1951 – K. K. Downing:shred::devil:(Judas Priest); 1951 – Jayne Kennedy:love:; 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:love:[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:shred:(Tyrannosaurus Rex, not to be confused with the band T. Rex); 1990 – Xavier Cugat:violin:; 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)

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

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:artist::rainfro:; 1944 – Denny Laine:bass:(The Moody Blues); 1945 – Mick Gallagher:keys:; 1946 – Peter Green:shred:(Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers); 1947 – Richard Dreyfuss; 1948 – Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels); 1955 – Kevin DuBrow♪ ♫(Quiet Riot); 1955 – Roger O'Donnell:keys:(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:love:; 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:shred:(The Allman Brothers Band, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys); 1987 – Woody Herman♪ ♫; 1995 – Terry Southern; 1997 – Anton LaVey:evil2:; 2011 – Jimmy Savile (British kiddie fiddler)

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.

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:thumbsup:; 1946 – Chris Slade:drummer:(AC/DC); 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit:bass:(Eagles, Poco); 1951 – Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.:driving:; 1951 – Harry Hamlin; 1953 – Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables); 1957 – Kevin Pollak; 1961 – Larry Wilmore; 1965 – Gavin Rossdale♪ ♫(Bush); 1968 – Ken Stringfellow:shred:(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)

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.Attachment 58361

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:bass:(Chic); 1954 – Ken Wahl; 1960 – Reza Pahlavi (son of the Shah of Iran); 1961 – Peter Jackson; 1963 – Mikkey Dee:drummer:(Motörhead, Scorpions, King Diamond, Don Dokken, Thin Lizzy); 1963 – Johnny Marr:shred:(The Smiths); 1963 – Dermot Mulroney; 1963 – Rob Schneider; 1964 – Darryl Worley♪ ♫; 1966 – Ad-Rock♪ ♫(Beastie Boys); 1967 – Vanilla Ice; 1967 – Adam Schlesinger:bass:(Fountains of Wayne); 1970 – Mitch Harris♪ ♫(Napalm Death); 1970 – Johnny Moeller:shred:(The Fabulous Thunderbirds); 1970 – Rogers Stevens:shred:(Blind Melon); 1980 – Eddie Kaye Thomas ('Finch' in American Pie movies); 1981 – Frank Iero:shred:(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:driving:

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.:jagoff:

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

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.

You're a good friend

Been there sir, good on ya

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

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:lol2:) 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:queen:; 1795 – James K. Polk (11th POTUS); 1865 – Warren G. Harding (29th POTUS); 1913 – Burt Lancaster; 1914 – Ray Walston:alien:(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:love:; 1944 – Keith Emerson♪ ♫; 1945 – J. D. Souther♪ ♫; 1952 – Maxine Nightingale♪ ♫; 1961 – k.d. lang♪ ♫; 1963 – Bobby Dall:bass:(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:driving:(namesake of the Bugatti Veyron); 1991 – Irwin Allen; 1992 – Hal Roach; 2007 – The Fabulous Moolah; 2015 – Tommy Overstreet♪ ♫

I wonder if cultivating the image of being Posh led to her being a target? I'm sure there are plenty more rich people.

November 3rd

Today is not celebrated for any particular reason in the United States.

There are 4 days until the 2016 Presidential election.

There are 58 days remaining in 2016.

There 51 days until Christmas.

Events

361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.

1333 – The flooding River Arno causes massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.

1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.

1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.

1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.

1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.

1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

1943 – World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany, destroying two thirds of the town's buildings.

1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the creature.

1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog, named Laika.

1960 - Elvis Presley had his fifth UK No.1 single with 'It's Now Or Never', it stayed at No.1 for eight weeks. The song which was based on the Italian song, 'O Sole Mio', gave Presley his first post-army service No.1.

1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.

1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.

1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.

1986 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

1990 - 25 years after their version was recorded, The Righteous Brothers went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Unchained Melody'. The track had been featured in the Patrick Swayze film 'Ghost.' Written by Alex North and Hy Zaret, Unchained Melody is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages.

2014 – One World Trade Center officially opens.

Births

39 – Lucan; 1793 – Stephen F. Austin "The Father Of Texas"; 1794 – William Cullen Bryant; 1816 – Jubal Early; 1852 – Emperor Meiji; 1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington; 1921 – Charles Bronson; 1930 – William H. Dana; 1933 – Ken Berry (Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.); 1933 – Aneta Corsaut ('Helen Crump' on Andy Griffith Show); 1933 – Michael Dukakis; 1936 – Takao Saito (created Golgo 13); 1948 – Lulu♪ ♫(sang "To Sir, With Love", and "The Man With The Golden Gun"); 1949 – Larry Holmes:boxers:; 1949 – Anna Wintour; 1952 – Roseanne Barr (crotch-grabbing anthem-mangler); 1953 – Kate Capshaw; 1953 – Dennis Miller (SNL); 1954 – Adam Ant♪ ♫; 1955 – Phil Simms; 1957 – Dolph Lundgren (Rocky V, The Expendables 1, 2, 3, & 4); 1962 – Gabe Newell (co-founded Valve Corp. video game developers); 1987 – Colon Kaepernick; 1987 – Gemma Ward; 1995 – Kendall Jenner

Deaths

361 – Constantius II; 1793 – Olympe de Gouges:behead:; 1926 – Annie "Little Sure Shot" Oakley; 1949 – Solomon R. Guggenheim; 1954 – Henri Matisse:artist:; 1990 – Mary Martin (Peter Pan, mother of Larry Hagman); 1993 – Léon Theremin (invented the Theremin); 1998 – Bob Kane (co-created Batman); 2002 – Lonnie Donegan♪ ♫; 2002 – Jonathan Harris (Lost In Space); 2006 – Paul Mauriat:keys:; 2013 – William J. Coyne

Death:
My cat Diz, 2014

He was a good Kitteh, and we miss him.

:cool:

:sniff:

November 4

There are 3 days until the 2016 Presidential election.

There are 57 days remaining in 2016.

There are 50 days until Christmas.

Events

1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.

1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).

1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

1839 – Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.

1890 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's (King Tut's) tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.

1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency (NSA).

1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm (76+ inches).

1967 - Pink Floyd made their US live debut when they appeared at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California. Floyd shared the bill with local group Big Brother & The Holding Company, featuring singer Janis Joplin and singer/songwriter Richie Havens.

1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.

1977 - The Last Waltz, the movie of The Band's final concert premiered in New York. The Martin Scorsese movie also featured Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, and Eric Clapton.<---If you haven't watched The Last Waltz, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you actually liked The Band.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American, and will be held for the next 444 days).

2007 - The Eagles went to No.1 on the UK album chart for the first time ever with Long Road Out of Eden - 33 years after their debut album On the Border. This was the group's first full studio album since The Long Run in 1979.

2008 – Barack Obama [remember him?] becomes the first person of biracial or African descent to be elected President of the United States. And there was much rejoicing.

2010 – Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.

2013 - Rihanna joined The Beatles and Elvis Presley as one of just three acts to top the UK singles chart seven times in seven years.

Births

1879 – Will Rogers; 1884 – Harry Ferguson (developed the three-point hitch, developed the modern agricultural tractor); 1913 – Gig Young; 'Uncle' Walter Cronkite; 1918 – Art Carney; 1918 – Cameron Mitchell; 1919 – Martin Balsam; 1923 – Freddy Heineken (of the beer brewing Heinekens); 1925 – Doris Roberts (the mother on Everybody Loves Raymond); 1937 – Loretta Swit ('"Hot Lips" Houlihan' on M*A*S*H (tv series); Chuck Mangione♪ ♫; 1940 – Delbert McClinton♪ ♫; 1946 – Laura Bush (45th FLOTUS); 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe (weirdo photographer); 1947 – Jerry Fleck (director on various Star Trek series); 1950 – Markie Post:love:; 1953 – Van Stephenson♪ ♫(BlackHawk); 1954 – Chris Difford♪ ♫(Squeeze); 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott:shred:(The Pretenders); 1960 – Kathy Griffin; 1961 – Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid); 1961 – Jeff Probst (host of Survivor); 1965 – Wayne Static:shred:(Static X); 1969 – Sean Combs♪ ♫; 1969 – Matthew McConaughey

Deaths

1921 – Hara Takashi; 1955 – Cy Young (namesake of the Cy Young Award in baseball); 1992 – George Klein:wheelchr:(invented the motorized wheelchair); 1995 – Eddie Egan (NYPD detective who inspired the book & movie The French Connection); 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin; 2005 – Sheree North:love:; 2008 – Michael Crichton; 2010 – Sparky Anderson; 2011 – Andy Rooney; :blackr:2014 - Diz:blackr:

November 5

There are 2 days until the 2016 Presidential election.

There are 56 days remaining in 2016.

There are 49 days until Christmas.

Today is Bank Transfer Day in the U.S., encouraging a voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions.

In the United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated, commemorating King James I's survival of an assassination attempt, known as The Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes Night coincides with The West Country Carnival.

Ireland celebrates National Love Your Red Hair Day today.

Events

1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.

1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.

1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.

1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.

1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

1895 – George B. Selden [Selden's father, Henry R. Selden, an attorney, defended Susan B. Anthony in The United States v. Susan B. Anthony, see 1872 above] is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.

1925 – British Secret Service Bureau secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. [To catch a secret agent, I guess you use the secret police.]

1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.

1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident (<--Interesting read.) kills five and leaves one severely injured.

2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

2009 – A U.S. Army Medical Corps psychiatrist murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

Births

1857 – Ida Tarbell; 1905 – Joel McCrea; 1911 – Roy Rogers; 1913 – Vivien Leigh; 1931 – Ike Turner♪ ♫; 1936 – Billy Sherrill♪ ♫; 1937 – Harris Yulin; 1940 – Elke Sommer:love:; 1941 – Art Garfunkel♪ ♫(Simon & Garfunkel); 1943 – Sam Shepard; 1946 – Gram Parsons♪ ♫; 1947 – Peter Noone♪ ♫(Herman"s Hermits); 1949 – Armin Shimerman ('Quark' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); 1955 – Kris Jenner; 1957 – Mike Score:keys:(A Flock Of Seagulls); 1958 – Robert Patrick (the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day); 1959 – Bryan Adams♪ ♫; 1960 – Tilda Swinton; 1963 – Tatum O'Neal; 1963 – Brian Wheat:bass:(Tesla); 1965 – Famke Janssen; 1968 – Sam Rockwell (The Green Mile); 1971 – Jonny Greenwood:shred::keys:(Radiohead); 1974 – Ryan Adams♪ ♫(Whiskeytown); 1978 – Bubba Watson; 1987 – Kevin Jonas♪ ♫(Jonas Bros)

Deaths

1956 – Art Tatum:keys:; 1960 – Ward Bond; 1960 – Johnny Horton♪ ♫; 1960 – Mack Sennett; 1977 – Guy Lombardo♪ ♫; 1979 – Al Capp; 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz:keys:; 1991 – Fred MacMurray; 2003 – Bobby Hatfield♪ ♫(The Righteous Bros); 2010 – Jill Clayburgh; 2015 – George Barris

Birth, 1938...my dad.

Birth, 1964...me.

That's the best history.
:)

Ps...loved jill clayburgh.

Happy Birthday toots.

Happy late birthday, infi!

Happy Belateds, Infi!

November 6

There is 1 day until the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

There are 48 days until Christmas.

There are 55 days remaining in 2016.

Today is observed, internationally, as an International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.

Events

1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.

1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the sixteenth president of United States.

1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.

1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

1913 – Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (FM radio) to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1943 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.

1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut.

2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. And there was much rejoicing.

Births

1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent; 1814 – Adolphe Sax; 1851 – Charles Dow; 1854 – John Philip Sousa; 1861 – James Naismith; 1893 – Edsel Ford; 1914 – Jonathan Harris; 1916 – Ray Conniff; 1921 – James Jones; 1926 – Zig Ziglar; 1931 – Mike Nichols; 1932 – Stonewall Jackson; 1941 – Guy Clark; 1946 – Sally Field; 1948 – Sidney Blumenthal; 1948 – Glenn Frey; 1949 – Brad Davis; 1949 – Arturo Sandoval; 1955 – William H. McRaven; 1955 – Maria Shriver; 1964 – Corey Glover; 1966 – Peter DeLuise; 1970 – Ethan Hawke; 1972 – Thandie Newton; 1976 – Pat Tillman; 1988 – Emma Stone

Deaths

1991 – Gene Tierney; 2007 – Hank Thompson

November 7

The U.S. Presidential Election is tomorrow.

There are 55 days remaining in 2016.

There are 47 days until Christmas.

Today marks the approximate midpoint of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere.

Events

1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

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 to fight with Murray and the British.

1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

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.

1893 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode, thus proving that Jesús saves.

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1913 – The first day of the three-day-long Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.

1914 – The first issue of The New Republic is published.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1916 – Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.

1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 Samoans (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

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.

1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1951 - Frank Sinatra married his second wife actress Ava Gardner.

1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1974 - Ted Nugent won a National squirrel-shooting match after picking off a squirrel at 150 yards.

1975 - A new world record was set for continuous guitar string plucking by Steve Anderson who played for 114 hours 17 minutes.

1983 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

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 to be elected Mayor of New York City.

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, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. Resolved by hanging some dude named Chad.

2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs (<---Very interesting read.) inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

2004 - Elton John turned the air blue live on BBC Radio 1 using the words; f****ing, w**k, and t**s. The singer was a guest on the Chris Moyles Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK. [I know what "f****ing" is, I know what "t**s" is, but what in the f**k is "w**k"?]

2014 - Australian drummer of AC/DC, Phil Rudd, had a charge of attempting to arrange a murder dropped in New Zealand, but he was still facing charges of drugs possession and making threats to kill. The turn around by authorities, announced less than 24 hours after Mr Rudd appeared in court, was because of a lack of evidence, his lawyer said.

2014 - Two wealthy fans paid $300,000 to eat lasagna with Bruce Springsteen at his house. Springsteen started off the annual Stand Up For Heroes event by playing an acoustic set, then offering the instrument to the highest bidder. When bidding reached $60,000, he threw in a guitar lesson, which someone offered $250,000 for. At this point, he offered up a lasagna dinner at his house, a ride around the block in the sidecar of his motorbike and the shirt off of his back. All the money went to the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which helps injured servicemen and their families when they return home.

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Births

1728 – James Cook; 1867 – Marie Curie; 1879 – Leon Trotsky; 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz; 1903 – Dean Jagger; 1913 – Albert Camus; 1914 – Archie Campbell; 1918 – Billy Graham; 1922 – Al Hirt♪ ♫; 1926 – Joan Sutherland♪ ♫; 1937 - Mary Travers♪ ♫(Peter, Paul & Mary); 1938 – Barry Newman; 1942 – Johnny Rivers♪ ♫; 1943 – Joni Mitchell:shred:; 1947 – Ron Leavitt (co-created Married...With Children); 1949 – Stephen Bruton; 1951 - Nick Gilder♪ ♫; 1952 – David Petraeus; 1956 – Judy Tenuta; 1957 – Christopher Knight ('Peter Brady' on The Brady Bunch); 1960 – Tommy Thayer:shred:(KISS); 1964 – Dana Plato (Diff'rent Strokes); 1970 – Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me); 1996 – Lorde

Deaths

1959 – Victor McLaglen(<---Interesting read.):boxers:(She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, Fort Apache); 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt (39th FLOTUS); 1967 – John Nance Garner (32nd VPOTUS); 1978 – Gene Tunney:boxers:; 1980 – Steve McQueen:devil:(American Bad-ass); 1992 – Jack Kelly; 2004 – Howard Keel; 2011 – Joe Frazier:boxers:

Wink. ;)

CHAD WAS INNOCENT!! :moon:



PS, today is International Merlot Day.

:mad2:For the second time today:

November 8

Today is Election Day!!!

There are 53 days remaining in 2016.

There are 46 days until Christmas.

Events

1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.

1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.

1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.

1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.

Births

1656 – Edmond Halley; 1836 – Milton Bradley; 1847 – Bram Stoker; 1900 – Margaret Mitchell; 1912 – June Havoc; 1920 – Esther Rolle; 1927 – Patti Page; 1931 – Morley Safer; 1935 – Alain Delon; 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett; 1946 – Roy Wood; 1947 – Minnie Riperton; 1949 – Wayne LaPierre; 1949 – Bonnie Raitt; 1950 – Mary Hart; 1952 – Alfre Woodard; 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones; 1961 – Leif Garrett; 1966 – Gordon Ramsay; 1968 – Parker Posey; 1972 – Gretchen Mol; 1975 – Tara Reid

Deaths

1674 – John Milton; 1887 – Doc Holliday; 1968 – Wendell Corey; 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter; 1978 – Norman Rockwell; 2006 – Basil Poledouris; 2011 – Heavy D; 2011 – Bil Keane

November 9


♪ ♫What fools we were to think we could get by♪ ♫
♪ ♫With only those 44 presidents we've tried.♪ ♫
♪ ♫We should have known the worst was yet to come.♪ ♫
♪ ♫And that Crying Time for us had just begun.♪ ♫

There are 52 days remaining in 2016.

There are 45 days until Christmas.

Today is World Freedom Day in the United States.:neutral:

Events

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.

1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him back to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. The fire is contained in 12 hours, after burning ~65 acres of downtown Boston, consuming 776 buildings, much of the financial district, and causing ~$73.5 million in damage. Thirteen people died.

1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes region, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

1955 - The Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings cutting four tracks in 22 minutes, at Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel studios.

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.

1965 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, How I Won the War and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

1979 – Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.

1990 - The IRS seized all of US country singer Willie Nelson's bank accounts and real estate holdings in connection with a $16 million tax debt.

1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Births

1801 – Gail Borden (invented condensed milk); 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy; 1825 – A. P. Hill; 1841 – Edward VII; 1869 – Marie Dressler; 1886 – Ed Wynn; 1892 – Mabel Normand; 1914 – Hedy Lamarr; 1918 – Spiro Agnew; 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith (Medgar Evers' assassin); 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge; 1928 – Anne Sexton; 1934 – Carl Sagan; 1941 – Tom Fogerty♪ ♫(Creedence Clearwater Revival); 1942 – Tom Weiskopf; 1947 – Robert David Hall:keys:(coroner on CSI); 1948 – Joe Bouchard:bass:(Blue Oyster Cult); 1951 – Lou Ferrigno; 1970 – Susan Tedeschi♪ ♫(Tedeschi Trucks Band); 1972 – Eric Dane ('Dr. McSteamy' on Grey's Anatomy); 1973 – Nick Lachey♪ ♫(98 Degrees)

Deaths

1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge; 1940 – Neville Chamberlain; 1953 – Ibn Saud; 1953 – Dylan Thomas; 1970 – Charles de Gaulle; 1991 – Yves Montand; 2003 – Art Carney; 2004 – Stieg Larsson; 2006 – Ed Bradley

November 10

1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 people, including papal soldiers and civilians, at Dún an Óir, Ireland.

1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.

1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.

1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.

1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

1970 – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

1989 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

2002 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio, during the early to mid afternoon and destroys a movie theater, which had been evacuated.

2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush.

Births

1483 – Martin Luther; 1775 - The United States Marine Corps:devil:; 1810 – George Jennings:turd:; 1889 – Claude Rains (The Invisible Man, Casablanca); 1895 – Jack Northrop (founded the Northrop Corporation); 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov (designed the AK-47); 1925 – Richard Burton; 1928 – Ennio Morricone♪ ♫; 1932 – Roy Scheider; 1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch♪ ♫; 1945 – Donna Fargo♪ ♫; 1947 – Glen Buxton:shred:(Alice Cooper); 1947 – Dave Loggins♪ ♫(wrote Please Come To Boston); 1949 – Ann Reinking♪ ♫; 1950 – Jack Scalia; 1955 – Roland Emmerich; 1956 – Sinbad; 1960 – Neil Gaiman; 1963 – Tommy Davidson; 1968 – Tracy Morgan; 1968 – Tom Papa; 1969 – Ellen Pompeo; 1971 – Walton Goggins; 1977 – Brittany Murphy; 1982 – Heather Matarazzo (Welcome To The Doll House); 1983 – Miranda Lambert

Deaths

1865 – Henry Wirz; 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud; 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev; 1992 – Chuck Connors; 1997 – Tommy Tedesco:shred:(The Wrecking Crew); 2001 – Ken Kesey (wrote One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes A Great Notion); 2006 – Gerald Levert♪ ♫; 2006 – Jack Palance; 2007 – Norman Mailer; 2008 – Miriam Makeba; 2009 – John Allen Muhammad (was The Beltway Sniper); 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis; 2015 – Allen Toussaint:keys:

November 11

Many countries mark today ("eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month") in relation to the end of World War I:

as Armistice Day in New Zealand, France, Belgium, and Serbia;

as Nat'l Independence Day in Poland (commemorating the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918);

as Remembrance Day in The United Kingdom and The Commonwealth of Nations;

and as Veteran's Day in The United States.

Today is observed as Singles' Day in China, celebrating the pride of being single.

Events

1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.

1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery. Apparently, exceptions were made for Catholic priests and alterboys.:yelsick:

1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: About 8,000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior (24,000 men) Russian and Austrian force.

1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

1864 – American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.

1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1887 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

1940 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

1972 - The Allman Brothers Band bass player Berry Oakley was killed when his motorcycle hit a bus at the same intersection as former band member Duane Allman, who had died a year earlier. Oakley was 24 years old.

1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

2000 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

2004 - Coldplay fan Sarah Sainsbury wrote to the band asking for their autographs so she could sell them to raise funds at her school charity. Coldplay sent her a triple platinum disc worth over £4,000.

2015 - Phil Taylor better known as "Philthy Animal" Taylor and drummer with Motörhead died aged 61. He was in the The classic mark IV Motörhead line-up of Lemmy, Taylor, and Fast Eddie Clarke who recorded ten studio albums and the live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.

Births

1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky; 1885 – George S. Patton:devil:; 1899 – Pat O'Brien (Angels With Dirty Faces, Some Like It Hot); 1904 – Alger Hiss; 1909 – Robert Ryan; :lol2:1925 – Jonathan Winters:lol2:; 1940 – Barbara Boxer; 1945 – Daniel Ortega; 1947 - Pat Daugherty♪ ♫(Black Oak Arkansas); 1951 – Fuzzy Zoeller; 1951 – Marc Summers (hosted Nickelodeon's Double Dare); 1953 – Marshall Crenshaw:shred:; 1953 – Andy Partridge:shred:(XTC); 1956 – Ian Craig Marsh♪ ♫(The Human League); 1959 – Carl 'The Truth' Williams:boxers:; 1960 – Stanley Tucci; 1962 – Demi Moore; 1964 – Calista Flockhart; 1965 – Max Mutchnick (co-creator Will & Grace, Boston Common); 1971 – David DeLuise ('Bug' on 3rd Rock From The Sun); 1972 – Adam Beach (Windtalkers); 1973 – Jason White:shred:; 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio

Deaths

1831 – Nat Turner; 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard; 1880 – Ned Kelly; 1917 – Liliuokalani♪ ♫(last reigning Queen of Hawaii); 1945 – Jerome Kern♪ ♫; 1972 – Berry Oakley:bass:(Allman Bros); 1976 – Alexander Calder:artist:; 1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr.; 1999 – Mary Kay Bergman (original voice for most of the female characters on South Park); 2004 – Yasser Arafat; 2015 - Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor:drummer:(Motörhead)

Grav, I for one appreciate the time and effort(not to mention do-overs from technical glitches), you spend on this thread. Thank you. :notworthy

You are very welcome, sir. Glad it's enjoyed.

:D

What Bruce Said.

November 12

Today is observed internationally as World Pneumonia Day.

There are 49 days remaining in 2016.

There are 42 days until Christmas.

Events

1439 – Plymouth, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

1892 – William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.

1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding (no, not the former POTUS) completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with 1,000 pounds of dynamite, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, killing 300,000 - 500,000 people.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

1997 - US singer, keyboard player Billy Preston was jailed for three years for possession of cocaine.

1999 - Gary Glitter was sentenced to four months in a Bristol prison after being found guilty of downloading child pornography from the internet. He was released on 11th January 2000.

2001 - The three living former Beatles met for the last time at George Harrison's hotel in New York City for lunch. Harrison died two weeks later.

2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

2008 - Mitch Mitchell, the British drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience was found dead in his US hotel room aged 61.

2014 – The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Births

1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton; 1840 – Auguste Rodin:artist:; 1897 – Karl Marx♪ ♫(no, not that Karl Marx, this one was a composer); 1903 – Jack Oakie; 1922 – Kim Hunter ('STELLLLLAAA' in A Streetcar Named Desire); 1929 – Grace Kelly; 1934 – Charles Manson; 1943 – Errol Brown♪ ♫(Hot Chocolate); 1944 – Booker T. Jones♪ ♫(Booker T. & the M.G.'s); 1944 – Al Michaels; 1945 – Neil Young:shred:(CSNY, Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield); 1947 – Buck Dharma:shred:(Blue Oyster Cult); 1958 – Megan Mullally ('Karen' on Will & Grace); 1962 – Jon Dough (porn actor); 1964 – David Ellefson:bass:(Megadeth); 1967 – Michael Moorer:boxers:; 1976 – Tevin Campbell♪ ♫; 1979 – Cote de Pablo ('Ziva' on NCIS); 1980 – Ryan Gosling; 1982 – Anne Hathaway; 1987 – Jason Day

Deaths

1035 – Cnut the Great; 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly:behead:; 1916 – Percival Lowell; 1981 – William Holden; 1990 – Eve Arden; 1993 – H. R. Haldeman; 1994 – Wilma Rudolph:bolt:; 2003 – Jonathan Brandis; 2003 – Penny Singleton ('Dagwood Bumstead's' wife 'Blondie' in 28 Blondie movies, voice of 'Jane Jetson' in The Jetsons); 2008 – Mitch Mitchell:drummer:(Jimi Hendrix Experience)

November 13

Today is World Kindness Day. So, kindly piss off. Please/Thank You.

There are 48 days remaining in 2016.

There are 41 days until Christmas.

Events

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1553 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen "Bloody" Mary I.

1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay and founding what would become Seattle, Washington.

1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.

1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.

1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.

1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

2015 – A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.

2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.

Births

1814 – Joseph Hooker; 1833 – Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth's big bro); 1838 – Joseph F. Smith; 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson; 1856 – Louis Brandeis (associate justice of SCOTUS); 1899 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1913 – Lon Nol; 1920 – Jack Elam:eyebrow:; 1922 – Oskar Werner (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451); 1929 – Fred Phelps (founded the Westboro Baptist Cocksmokers); 1932 – Richard Mulligan (Soap, Empty Nest); 1934 – Garry Marshall; 1938 – Jean Seberg (Paint Your Wagon); 1941 – David Green (founded Hobby Lobby); 1941 – Dack Rambo; 1946 – Ray Wylie Hubbard:shred:; 1947 – Toy Caldwell:shred:(The Marshall Tucker Band); 1947 – Joe Mantegna (Glengarry Glen Ross, Criminal Minds); 1949 – Terry Reid♪ ♫; 1954 – Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex and the City); 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg; 1960 – Neil Flynn (Scrubs, The Middle); 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel; 1967 – Steve Zahn; 1969 – Gerard Butler (300, Gamer, Olympus Has Fallen)

Deaths

1969 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1974 – Karen Silkwood (subject of the movie Silkwood); 1983 – Junior Samples (Hee Haw); 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard♪ ♫; 2014 – Mike Burney♪ ♫(Wizzard)

I love Fantasia, seen it many times, but the last time we were pretty fucked up and sat in the front row. Big mistake.

I got my VHS copy when they came out. Still have it.

Watched it on a BIG rear projection tv once, pretty cool.

One of my faves.

November 14

There are 47 days remaining in 2016.

There are 40 days until Christmas.

Today [oddly enough;)] is World Diabetes Day, the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus.

Events

1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

1914 – The Ottoman Empire declares war against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro during the early months of World War I.

1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge (a National Historic Site of Canada) connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.

1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.

1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.

1957 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.

1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.

1969 - 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. The single became the longest running One Hit Wonder in the UK with eight week's at the top of the charts. It was the first No.1 performed by cartoon characters.

1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including 37 members of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of Pan Am Flight 103.

1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.

Births

1719 – Leopold Mozart:violin:(little Wolfgang's pappy); 1765 – Robert Fulton (invented the steamboat); 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru; 1900 – Aaron Copland♪ ♫; 1904 – Dick Powell; 1908 – Joseph McCarthy; 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz; 1921 – Brian Keith; 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali; 1922 – Veronica Lake:love:; 1927 – McLean Stevenson ('Colonel Henry Blake' on M*A*S*H (tv)); 1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr.:keys:(Winton's & Branford's father); 1936 – Cornell Gunter♪ ♫(The Coasters); 1937 – Bobby Astyr (porn actor); 1944 - Sherri Payne♪ ♫(The Supremes); 1947 – P. J. O'Rourke; 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco♪ ♫; 1948 – Robert Ginty; 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales; 1949 – Gary Grubbs (that guy who was in that thing); 1949 – James Young:shred:(Styx); 1951 – Frankie Banali:drummer:(Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P., Billy Idol, Faster Pussycat, Steppenwolf); 1951 – Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian); 1951 – Stephen Bishop♪ ♫(sang "On And On"); 1951 – Alec John Such:bass:(Bon Jovi); 1952 – Maggie Roswell (voice of Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and Luann Van Houten, et al, on The Simpsons); 1954 – Condoleezza Rice; 1954 – Yanni:keys:; 1961 – D. B. Sweeney; 1962 – Laura San Giacomo; 1962 – Harland Williams (RocketMan); 1964 – Patrick Warburton (voice of 'Joe Swanson' on Family Guy, Rules of Engagement, The Tick); 1966 - Joseph 'Run' Simmons♪ ♫(Run-DMC); 1967 – Nina Gordon:shred:(Veruca Salt); 1970 – Brendan Benson♪ ♫(The Raconteurs); 1972 – Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas, Transformers movie series, Battle Creek); 1973 – Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad, Life In Pieces); 1974 – Adina Howard♪ ♫; 1975 – Travis Barker:drummer:(Blink-182)

Deaths

1263 – Alexander Nevsky; 1864 – Franz Müller (committed the first murder on a train); 1915 – Booker T. Washington; 1974 – Johnny Mack Brown♪ ♫; 1995 – Jack Finney (wrote "The Body Snatchers"; 1997 – Eddie Arcaro:dedhorse:; 2003 – Gene Anthony Ray (Fame, movie & tv series); 2012 – Martin Fay:violin:(The Chieftains); 2014 – Glen A. Larson (creator of the tv series Alias Smith and Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Quincy, M.E., The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, B. J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider et al); 2015 – Nick Bockwinkel (professional wrestler)

November 15

The Day Of The Imprisoned Writer is observed internationally on this date.

There are 46 days remaining in 2016.

There are 39 days until Christmas.

Events

1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.<--[There would be no rejoicing.]

1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.<--[Still no rejoicing.]

1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.

1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

1915 – Winston Churchill resigns from his Government, and soon commands the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.

1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

1959 – The Clutter Family is murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

1969 - Janis Joplin was arrested during a gig in Tampa, Florida, after badmouthing a policeman and using vulgar and indecent language. Joplin became upset after police moved into the hall forcing fans to move back to their seats. As the singer left the stage she confronted a detective calling him 'a son of a bitch' and told him she would kick his face in.

1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

1987 - Dire Straits became the first act to sell over three million copies of an album in the UK. Brothers in Arms contained five, top 40 singles: ‘Money for Nothing,’ ‘So Far Away,’ ‘Walk of Life,’ ‘Brothers in Arms’ and ‘Your Latest Trick.’ The album is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history.

1990 - Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian held a press conference to confirm the rumours that the two members of the group Rob and Fab had not sung on any of their hit records.

1992 - Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement from touring after a gig in California, [ironically] saying "Who wants to be touring at 46?":lol2:

Births

1738 – William Herschel; 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe:artist:; 1891 – Erwin Rommel; 1905 - Mantovani♪ ♫; 1906 – Curtis LeMay****; 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg; 1919 – Judge Joseph Wapner (The Peoples' Court); 1925 – Howard Baker; 1928 – C. W. McCall♪ ♫(sang "Convoy"; 1929 – Ed Asner; 1932 – Petula Clark♪ ♫(sang "Downtown"); 1933 - Clyde McPhatter♪ ♫(The Drifters); 1937 – Yaphet Kotto; 1940 – Sam Waterston (The Killing Fields, Law & Order); 1945 - Frida Lyngstad♪ ♫(ABBA); 1945 – Bob Gunton (prison warden in The Shawshank Redemption); 1951 – Beverly D'Angelo (National Lampoon's Vacation movies); 1952 – Randy Savage ("Oh, yeah, brother!"); 1954 – Tony Thompson:drummer:(The Power Station, Chic); 1955 – Joe Leeway♪ ♫(Thompson Twins); 1956 – Michael Hampton:shred:(Parliament-Funkadelic); 1957 – Kevin Eubanks:shred:(The Tonight Show Band); 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard♪ ♫; 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller(Hackers, Elementary); 1974 – Chad Kroeger♪ ♫(Nickelback); 1977 – Sean Murray ('Special Agent Timothy McGee' on NCIS)

Deaths

1630 – Johannes Kepler; 1949 – Narayan Apte & Nathuram Godse (assassins of Mohandas K. Ghandi); 1954 – Lionel Barrymore; 1958 – Tyrone Power; 1967 – Michael J. Adams (X-15 pilot); 1996 – Alger Hiss; 2015 – P. F. Sloan (wrote the songs "Eve of Destruction" & "Secret Agent Man")

November 16

The United Nations has designated this day as an International Day for Tolerance. So...Tolerate the intolerant.

There are 45 days remaining in 2016.

There are 38 days until Christmas.

Events

1272 – While traveling during the Ninth Crusade (or Eighth), Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

1793 – French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.

1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.

1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (the vacuum tube).

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

1940 – World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

1945 – UNESCO is founded.

1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.

1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

2002 - Texan multi-billionaire David Bonderman hired The Rolling Stones to play at his 60th birthday party held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The bands fee was £4.4m.

Births

42 BC – Tiberius; 1873 – W. C. Handy♪ ♫; 1905 – Eddie Condon♪ ♫(jazz banjoist, yes, jazz banjo); 1907 – Burgess Meredith; 1916 – Daws Butler (voice(s) of Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound, et al); 1928 – Clu Gulager; 1942 – Joanna Pettet; 1956 – Terry Labonte:driving:; 1958 – Marg Helgenberger (China Beach, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation); 1959 – Corey Pavin; 1961 – Frank Bruno:boxers:; 1961 – Chris Pitman:keys:(Guns N' Roses, Tool); 1962 – Mani:bass:(Stone Roses); 1962 – Josh Silver:keys:(Type O Negative); 1964 – Diana Krall:keys:; 1966 – Dave Kushner:shred:(Velvet Revolver, Danzig, Jane's Addiction); Christian "Flake" Lorenz:keys:(Rammstein); 1967 – Lisa Bonet; 1970 – Martha Plimpton; 1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal (big sis to Jake); 1984 – Gemma Atkinson

Deaths

1272 – Henry III of England; 1806 – Moses Cleaveland (namesake of Cleveland, OH); 1885 – Louis Riel; 1950 – Bob Smith (co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous); 1960 – Clark Gable (Didn't give a damn.); 1961 – Sam Rayburn; 2005 – Ralph Edwards; 2009 – Edward Woodward (Breaker Morant, The Equalizer); 2015 – David Canary (All My Children, Bonanza)

November 17

Today is observed as World Prematurity Day, raising awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide.

There are 44 days remaining in 2016.

There are 37 days until Christmas.

Events

474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.

1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

1777 – Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.

1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.

1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.

1894 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

1963 - John Weightman, the Headmaster of a Surrey grammar school, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, "This ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons."

1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.

1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.

1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

1978 – The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.

1990 - David Crosby from Crosby Stills Nash & Young was admitted to hospital after breaking a leg, shoulder and ankle after crashing his Harley Davidson.

1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

2003 - American country music legend Don Gibson died of natural causes aged 75.

2011 - Sheriff's deputies in South Los Angeles charged 61-year-old Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters for possessing rock cocaine after the car she was driving in was pulled over for a mechanical malfunction.

2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

Births

9 – Vespasian; 1887 – Bernard Montgomery; 1901 – Lee Strasberg; 1906 – Soichiro Honda (co-founded the Honda Motor Company); 1916 – Shelby Foote (author, American Civil War historian); 1925 – Rock Hudson; 1928 – Rance Howard (Ron's & Clint's pappy); 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot (sang "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"); 1942 – Martin Scorsese; 1943 – Lauren Hutton; 1944 – Danny DeVito; 1944 – Lorne Michaels (creator SNL); 1945 – Roland Joffé; 1946 – Martin Barre:shred:(Jethro Tull); 1948 – Howard Dean; 1948 – East Bay Ray:shred:(The Dead Kennedys); 1949 – John Boehner; 1951 – Dean Paul Martin (F-4 Phantom pilot, Dean Martin's son); 1951 – Stephen Root ('Jimmy James' on NewsRadio, voice of 'Bill Dauterive' on King Of The Hill); 1954 – Mark 'Chopper' Read; 1957 – Jim Babjak:shred:(The Smithereens); 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; 1960 – Jonathan Ross; 1960 – RuPaul; 1966 – Jeff Buckley:shred:; 1966 – Richard Fortus:shred:(Guns N' Roses, Thin Lizzie); 1966 – Daisy Fuentes:heartpump; 1966 – Sophie Marceau; 1967 – Ronnie DeVoe♪ ♫(Bell Biv DeVoe); 1976 – Diane Neal (Law & Order, NCIS); 1980 – Isaac Hanson♪ ♫(Hanson)

Deaths

474 – Leo II; 1558 – Mary I of England; 1796 – Catherine the Great; 1812 – John Walter (founder of The Times newspaper); 1917 – Auguste Rodin:artist:; 1979 - John Glascock:bass:(Jethro Tull); 1998 – Esther Rolle ('Florida Evans' on Good Times); 2003 - Don Gibson (wrote "I Can't Stop Loving You")

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

November 18

There are 43 days days remaining in 2016, and they cannot go by fast enough.

There are 36 days until Christmas.

Events

401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.

1307 – According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.

1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as St. Elizabeth's flood.

1865 – Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

1929 – Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.

2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Births

1787 – Louis Daguerre; 1810 – Asa Gray; 1836 – W. S. Gilbert; 1861 – Dorothy Dix; 1883 – Carl Vinson; 1901 – George Gallup; 1908 – Imogene Coca; 1909 – Johnny Mercer; 1923 – Alan Shepard; 1923 – Ted Stevens; 1927 – Hank Ballard; 1939 – Brenda Vaccaro; 1942 – Linda Evans; 1942 – Susan Sullivan; 1947 – Jameson Parker; 1949 – Herman Rarebell; 1950 – Graham Parker; 1950 – Rudy Sarzo; 1952 – Delroy Lindo; 1953 – Kevin Nealon; 1954 – John Parr; 1959 – Cindy Blackman; 1962 – Kirk Hammett; 1963 – Len Bias; 1974 – Chloë Sevigny; 1980 – Denny Hamlin; 1984 – Johnny Christ

Deaths

1886 – Chester A. Arthur; 1922 – Marcel Proust; 1962 – Niels Bohr; 1969 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; 1972 – Danny Whitten; 1976 – Man Ray; 1978 – Jim Jones; 1978 – Leo Ryan; 1994 – Cab Calloway; 2002 – James Coburn; 2005 – Harold J. Stone; :blackr:2006 - My Best Friend, John:blackr:

Don't drink the kool-aid

National Adoption Day! 19 November.

November 19

Today is marked as Women's Entrepreneurship Day, a day for observing and discussing the achievements of women entrepreneurs.

World Toilet Day is observed on this day internationally.

And, as Big V mentioned, today is National Adoption Day. My best friend John, who died ten years ago yesterday, was adopted, a Chosen Child, as his mother referred to him sometimes. He was the single most generous person I have ever met in my entire life, and an outstanding human being. Don't know if that's because he was adopted, or not. Just sayin'.

There are 42 days remaining in 2016.

There are 35 days until Christmas.

Events

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

1955 - Carl Perkins recorded 'Blue Suede Shoes' at Sun Studios in Memphis.

1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

1983 - Tom Evans from Badfinger, committed suicide by hanging himself in his back garden from a willow tree. Family members said the singer/songwriter was never able to get over his former bandmate's Pete Ham's suicide.

1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.

1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. Resulting in a stain on his presidency, much like the stain on Ms. Lewinski's dress.

1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

2004 – Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest is suspended 86 games (rest of season), and Stephen Jackson is suspended 30 games.

2012 - Two farmers were found not guilty of health and safety offenses after a giant hay bale crushed former ELO cellist Mike Edwards to death. He was killed instantly when the 600kg bale rolled down a field and landed on his van near Totnes in Devon in September 2010. In March 2011 in Plymouth an inquest jury returned a verdict of accidental death on Mr. Edwards.

Births

1752 – George Rogers Clark; 1831 – James A. Garfield (20th POTUS); 1889 – Clifton Webb; 1905 – Tommy Dorsey♪ ♫; 1917 – Indira Gandhi; 1920 – Gene Tierney; 1933 – Larry King; 1936 – Dick Cavett; 1938 – Ted Turner; 1941 – Dan Haggerty (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams); 1942 – Calvin Klein; 1949 – Ahmad Rashād; 1953 – Robert Beltran ('Chakotay' on Star Trek: Voyager); 1956 – Ann Curry; 1959 – Allison Janney (The West Wing, Mom); 1960 – Matt Sorum:drummer:(Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, The Cult); 1961 – Meg Ryan; 1962 – Jodie Foster; 1963 – Terry Farrell ('Jadzia Dax' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Becker); 1966 – Gail Devers:bolt:; 1966 – Jason Scott Lee; 1971 – Jeremy McGrath; 1971 – Justin Chancellor:bass:(Tool); 1973 – Billy Currington:shred:; 1976 – Jack Dorsey (co-founded Twitter); 1977 – Kerri Strug

Deaths

1703 – Man in the Iron Mask; 1828 – Franz Schubert:keys:; 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson (9th VPOTUS); 1985 – Stepin Fetchit; 1992 – Bobby Russell (wrote "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", & "Little Green Apples"); 1998 – Ted Fujita; 1998 – Alan J. Pakula; 2004 – Terry Melcher♪ ♫; 2007 – Kevin DuBrow♪ ♫(Quiet Riot); 2007 – Dick Wilson ('Mr. Whipple' in Charmin toilet paper commercials); 2011 – John Neville (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen); 2014 – Mike Nichols

Not quite sure what to make of this synchronicity. I think I'll take it as a compliment.



Sent by magic.

It's a reminder the world is not united in their goals. :(

November 20

Today is marked by the LGBT community as a Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those murdered because of their lifestyle.

Today is observed, throughout the Universe apparently, as Universal Children's Day. It is observed even in those parts of the Universe where children are seen only as appetizers.

There are 41 days remaining in 2016.

There are 34 days until Christmas.

Events

284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.

1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

1947 – Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

1959 – United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child; annual anniversary observed as Universal Children's Day.

1961 - Bob Dylan started recording his debut album over two days at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.

1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

1974 - Drummer with The Who, Keith Moon collapsed during a concert after his drink was spiked with horse tranquillizer. 19 year-old Scott Halpin who was in the audience, volunteered to replace him on drums for the remaining three numbers.

1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

1980 – Lake Peigneur (<--Interesting read.), in Louisiana, drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.

1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.

1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin", :lol2:, in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

Births

1866 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis 91st Commissioner of MLB); 1889 – Edwin Hubble; 1900 – Chester Gould (created Dick Tracy); 1913 – Judy Canova; 1916 – Evelyn Keyes (Gone With The Wind); 1917 – Robert Byrd; 1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot; 1925 – George Barris; 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy; 1927 – Estelle Parsons (Roseanne); 1928 – Franklin Cover (upstairs neighbor 'Tom Willis' on The Jeffersons); 1932 – Richard Dawson (Hogan's Heroes, host of Family Feud); 1939 – Dick Smothers (the younger of The Smothers Brothers); 1942 – Shotgun Joe Biden (47th VPOTUS); 1942 – Bob Einstein (performed as and created "Super Dave Osborne", older brother to Albert Brooks (whose real last name is also Einstein)); 1942 – Norman Greenbaum (sang "Spirit In The Sky"); 1943 – Veronica Hamel:love:(Hill Street Blues); 1946 – Duane Allman:shred:(Allman Bros Band); 1946 – Judy Woodruff; :devil:1947 – Joe Walsh:devil::shred:(James Gang, Eagles); 1948 – Richard Masur; 1956 – Bo Derek:heartpump(10); 1971 – Joel McHale (Community, The Great Indoors); 1975 – Dierks Bentley♪ ♫; 1977 – Josh Turner♪ ♫; 1986 – Ashley Fink (Glee)

Deaths

1910 – Leo Tolstoy (author of "War And Peace" & "Anna Karenina"); 1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna (yeah, that Cessna); 1973 – Allan Sherman (sang "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"); 2006 – Robert Altman

November 21

Today is, wait, whut? No Music Day? What the?! You know what? Don't even.

Every year, November 21 is World Hello Day. The objective is to say hello to at least ten people on the day. The message is for world leaders to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts. So...

Today also marks World Television Day. Not what you think.

There are 40 days remaining in 2016.

There are 33 days until Christmas.

Events

164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.

1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc².

1916 – Mines from SM U-73 sink the hospital ship HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator.

1945 – The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.

1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.

1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

1992 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes before ending on the 23rd.

1998 – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, one of the most successful and influential video games of all time, was released in Japan.

Births

1694 – Voltaire; 1729 – Josiah Bartlett; 1787 – Samuel Cunard (founded the Cunard Line); 1898 – René Magritte:artist:; 1919 – Steve Brodie; 1920 – Ralph Meeker ('Mike Hammer' in Kiss Me Deadly); 1920 – Stan Musial; 1924 – Joseph Campanella; 1924 – Christopher Tolkien (J.R.R.'s son and editor); 1937 – Marlo Thomas; 1940 – Dr. John:keys: (sang "Right Place, Wrong Time"); 1940 – Richard Marcinko; 1943 – Phil Bredesen; 1944 – Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe; 1944 – Harold Ramis; 1945 – Goldie Hawn; 1948 – George Zimmer (founded Men's Wearhouse, "You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it."); 1950 – Gary Pihl:shred:(Sammy Hagar, Boston); 1950 – Livingston Taylor:shred: (James Taylor's brother); 1960 – Brian Ritchie:bass:(Violent Femmes); 1963 – Nicollette Sheridan:love:(Knot's Landing); 1965 – Björk♪ ♫; 1967 – Ken Block:driving:; 1968 – Antonio Tarver:boxers:; 1971 – Michael Strahan; 1972 – David Tua:boxers:; 1975 – Jimmi Simpson; 1985 – Carly Rae Jepsen♪ ♫:love:

Deaths

1924 – Florence Harding (36th FLOTUS); 1958 – Mel Ott; 1959 – Max Baer:boxers:; 1963 – Robert Stroud, The Bird Man of Alcatraz; 1986 – Jerry Colonna♪ ♫; 1993 – Bill Bixby ("Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."); 2011 – Anne McCaffrey (wrote The Dragonriders of Pern book series); 2015 – Bob Foster:boxers:

November 22

Is your turkey thawing yet?:eyebrow:

There are 39 days remaining in 2016.

There are 32 days until Christmas.

Events

845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.

1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

1963 – US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.

1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

1977 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.

1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.

1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.

2004 - Ozzy Osbourne struggled with a burglar who escaped with jewellery worth about £2m from his Buckinghamshire mansion. Osbourne told reporters that he had the masked raider in a headlock as he tried to stop him. The burglar broke free and jumped 30 ft from a first floor window.

2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births

1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle; 1744 – Abigail Adams (2nd FLOTUS); 1819 – George Eliot (she is the author of Adam Bede & Silas Marner, et al); 1868 – John Nance Garner (32nd VPOTUS); 1890 – Charles de Gaulle; 1893 – Harley Earl (automotive designer, brought about the Corvette, and the tailfin); 1898 – Wiley Post; 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael:keys:; 1909 – Mikhail Mil (Mil Helicopters); 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield:lol2:; 1922 – Eugene Stoner (designed the AR-10, AR-15/M-16, & the AR-5 Survival Rifle; 1924 – Geraldine Page; 1932 – Robert Vaughn; 1940 – Terry Gilliam (Monty Python); 1941 – Tom Conti; 1941 – Terry Stafford♪ ♫(wrote "Amarillo By Morning"); 1943 - Floyd Sneed:drummer:(Three Dog Night); 1943 – Billie Jean King; 1947 – Rod Price:shred:(Foghat); 1950 – 'Little Steven' Van Zandt:shred:(The E Street Band); 1950 – Tina Weymouth:bass:(The Talking Heads); 1956 – Lawrence Gowan:keys:(Styx); 1956 – Richard Kind; 1958 – Horse♪ ♫; 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis; 1961 – Mariel Hemingway; 1966 – Michael K. Williams ('Omar' on The Wire); 1967 – Boris Becker; 1967 – Mark Ruffalo; 1980 – Shawn Fanning (founded Napster, remember Napster?); 1984 – Scarlett Johansson

Deaths

1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach); 1875 – Henry Wilson (18th VPOTUS); 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (invented the Ferris Wheel); 1902 – Walter Reed (Walter Reed Army Medical Center); 1916 – Jack London (author of "White Fang", "Call of The Wild"); 1955 – Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges); 1963 – Aldous Huxley (author "Brave New World"); 1963 – John F. Kennedy (35th POTUS); 1963 – C. S. Lewis; 1980 – Mae West; 1986 – Scatman Crothers♪ ♫; 1992 – Sterling Holloway; 1993 – Anthony Burgess; 1996 – Mark Lenard ('Spock's' father on Star Trek series'); 1997 – Michael Hutchence♪ ♫(INXS); 1998 – Stu Ungar (poker player, subject of High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story<--recommend, btw); 2000 – Emil Zátopek:bolt:; 2001 – Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay Cosmetics); 2002 – Parley Baer

November 23

Frederick, Maryland marks this day as Repudiation Day, commemorating the repeal, or repudiation, of the Stamp Act of 1765.

There are 38 days remaining in 2016.

There are 31 days until Christmas.

Events

534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.

1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.

1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

1976 - Ten hours after his last arrest, Jerry Lee Lewis was arredted again after brandishing a Derringer pistol outside Elvis Presley's Graceland home in Memphis, demanding to see the 'King'. When police arrived they found Lewis sat in his car with the loaded Derringer pistol resting on his knee.

1979 - Pink Floyd released the single 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' which rapidly topped the charts in the UK, followed by the US and a further 9 countries.

1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17)(<--pdf), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1992 - American country music singer Roy Acuff died aged 89. Known as the "King of Country Music," he was the first living artist elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame.

1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.

2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

Births

870 – Alexander; 1804 – Franklin Pierce (14th POTUS); 1887 – Boris Karloff:speechls:; 1888 – Harpo Marx; 1902 – Victor Jory ('Chief Iron Belly' in The Mountain Men, highly recommend watching this movie if you haven't seen it); 1915 – John Dehner; 1926 – R. L. Burnside:shred:; 1936 – Steve Landesberg ('Detective Dietrich' on Barney Miller); 1942 – Susan Anspach; 1948 – Bruce Vilanch; 1949 – Alan Paul♪ ♫(Manhattan Transfer); 1951 – David Rappaport; 1954 – Bruce Hornsby♪ ♫(Bruce Hornsby & The Range); 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield; 1960 – Robin Roberts; 1961 – John Schnatter (Papa John's Pizza); 1962 – Nicolás Maduro; 1966 – Vincent Cassel; 1992 – Miley Cyrus♪ ♫:p:

Deaths

1814 – Elbridge Gerry (5th VPOTUS); 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen (first suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy); 1979 – Merle Oberon; 1982 – Rev. Grady Nutt; 1990 – Roald Dahl; 1991 – Klaus Kinski; 1992 – Roy Acuff:violin:; 1994, Tommy Boyce♪ ♫(wrote "Last Train To Clarksville" & "Scooby- Doo Where Are You"); 1995 – Louis Malle; 1995 – Junior Walker♪ ♫(Jr. Walker & The All Stars); 2006 – Anita O'Day♪ ♫; 2006 – Willie Pep:boxers:; 2012 – Larry Hagman; 2014 – Marion Barry:lolsign: