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Old 11-04-2016, 11:48 AM   #383
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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; 1953 – Van Stephenson♪ ♫(BlackHawk); 1954 – Chris Difford♪ ♫(Squeeze); 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott(The Pretenders); 1960 – Kathy Griffin; 1961 – Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid); 1961 – Jeff Probst (host of Survivor); 1965 – Wayne Static(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(invented the motorized wheelchair); 1995 – Eddie Egan (NYPD detective who inspired the book & movie The French Connection); 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin; 2005 – Sheree North; 2008 – Michael Crichton; 2010 – Sparky Anderson; 2011 – Andy Rooney; 2014 - Diz
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