The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday - The "Battle" of Palmdale, CA 10-16-56 - Oct. 30, 2005

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[alfa6]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer
for all those serving their country at this time.


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THE BATTLE OF PALMDALE,CA 10/16/1947



On the morning of 16 August 1956, Navy personnel at Point Mugu prepared an F6F-5K for its final mission. The aircraft had been painted overall high-visibility red. Red and yellow camera pods were mounted on the wingtips. Radio remote control systems were checked, and the Hellcat took off at 11:34 a.m., climbing out over the Pacific Ocean. As ground controllers attempted to maneuver the drone toward the target area, it became apparent that it was not responding to radio commands. They had a runaway.



Ahead of the unguided drone lay thousands of square miles of ocean into which it could crash. Instead, the old Hellcat made a graceful climbing turn to the southeast, toward the city of Los Angeles. With the threat of a runaway aircraft approaching a major metropolitan area, the Navy called for help.

Five miles north of NAS Point Mugu, two F-89D Scorpion twin-jet interceptors of the 437th Fighter Interceptor Squadron were scrambled from Oxnard Air Force Base. The crews were ordered to shoot down the rogue drone before it could cause any harm. Armed with wingtip-mounted rocket pods and no cannon, the Scorpion was typical of the Cold War approach to countering the "Red Menace." Each pod contained 52 Mighty Mouse 2.75-inch rockets. Salvo-launched, the Mighty Mouse did not have to have precision guidance. Large numbers of rockets would be fired into approaching Soviet bomber formations to overwhelm them with sheer numbers. Today, they would be used against a different kind of red menace.



At Oxnard AFB, 1Lt. Hans Einstein and his radar observer, 1Lt. C. D. Murray, leapt into their sleek F-89D. Simultaneously, 1Lt. Richard Hurliman and 1Lt. Walter Hale climbed into a second aircraft. The interceptors roared south after their target. The hunt was on.

An F-89 Scorpion flies chase for a Snark missle

Einstein and Hurliman caught up with the Hellcat at 30,000 feet, northeast of Los Angeles. It turned southwest, crossing over the city, then headed northwest. As the Hellcat circled lazily over Santa Paula, the interceptor crews waited impatiently. As soon as it passed over an unpopulated area, they would fire their rockets.

Wingtip mounted rocket pod on a F-89

The interceptor crews discussed their options. There were two methods of attack using the fire control system, from a wings level attitude or while in a turn. Since the drone was almost continuously turning, they selected the second mode of attack. In repeated attempts, the rockets failed to fire during these maneuvers. This was later traced to a design fault.

The drone turned northeast, passing Fillmore and Frazier Park. It appeared to be heading toward the sparsely populated western end of the Antelope Valley. Suddenly, it turned southeast toward Los Angeles again. Time seemed to be running out. Einstein and Hurliman decided to abandon the automatic modes, and fire manually. Although the aircraft had been delivered with gun sights, they had been removed a month earlier. After all, why would a pilot need a gun sight to fire unguided rockets with an automatic fire control system?



The interceptors made their first attack run as the Hellcat crossed the mountains near Castaic. Murray and Hale set their intervalometers to "ripple fire" the rockets in three salvos. The first crew lined up their target and fired, missing their target completely. The second interceptor unleashed a salvo that passed just below the drone. Rockets blazed through the sky and then plunged earthward to spark brush fires seven miles north of Castaic. They decimated 150 acres above the old Ridge Route near Bouquet Canyon.

A second salvo from the two jets also missed the drone, raining rockets near the town of Newhall. One bounced across the ground, leaving a string of fires in its wake between the Oak of the Golden Dream Park and the Placerita Canyon oilfield. The fires ignited several oil sumps and burned 100 acres of brush. For a while the blazes raged out of control, threatening the nearby Bermite Powder Company explosives plant. The rockets also ignited a fire in the vicinity of Soledad Canyon, west of Mt. Gleason, burning over 350 acres of heavy brush.



Meanwhile, the errant drone meandered north toward Palmdale. The Scorpion crews readjusted their intervalometers and each fired a final salvo, expending their remaining rockets. Again, the obsolete, unpiloted, unguided, unarmed, propeller-driven drone evaded the state-of-the-art jet interceptors. In all, the jet crews fired 208 rockets without scoring a single hit.

The afternoon calm was shattered as Mighty Mouse rockets fell on downtown Palmdale. Edna Carlson was at home with her six-year-old son William when a chunk of shrapnel burst through her front window, bounced off the ceiling, pierced a wall, and finally came to rest in a pantry cupboard. Another fragment passed through J. R. Hingle's garage and home, nearly hitting Mrs. Lilly Willingham as she sat on the couch. A Leona Valley teenager, Larry Kempton, was driving west on Palmdale Boulevard with his mother in the passenger seat when a rocket exploded on the street in front of him. Fragments blew out his left front tire, and put numerous holes in the radiator, hood, windshield, and even the firewall. Miraculously, no one was injured by any of the falling rockets. Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams later recovered 13 duds in the vicinity of Palmdale. It took 500 firefighters two days to bring the brushfires under control.



Oblivious to the destruction in its wake, the drone passed over the town. Its engine sputtered and died as the fuel supply dwindled. The red Hellcat descended in a loose spiral toward an unpopulated patch of desert eight miles east of Palmdale Airport. Just before impact, the drone sliced through a set of three Southern California Edison power lines along an unpaved section of Avenue P. The camera pod on the airplane's right wingtip dug into the sand and the Hellcat cartwheeled and disintegrated. There was no fire. So ended the epic "Battle" of Palmdale.

Educational Resources

http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/northrop/f-89j.htm
(F-89 Scorpion)

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/15628.html
(History News)

http://www.thexhunters.com/xpeditions/f6f-5k.html
(X-Hunters)

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[alfa6]

Yippee, it's Halloween

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, FOXHOLE!!

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Christina Hamel receives the American flag during a Sept. 11 retreat ceremony for members of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward-deployed location. The base honor guard completed the ceremony, which preceded a Sept. 11 memorial service at the base's theater. Sergeant Hamel is deployed from the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Natalia DaSilva)

Really big size.

[Peanut Gallery]

[SAMWolf]

:-) I've noticed most foreign ads are a lot better than ours.

[Steelerfan]

Ravensloft right? By the folks that wrote the Dragonlance novels?

God I am a geek, and what is worse, an old geek.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 31:
1345 Ferdinand I the wise one, king of Portugal (built navy)
1424 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk king of Poland/Hungary
1620 John Evelyn British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin)
1632 Jan Vermeer Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
1740 William Paca US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1795 John Keats London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn)
1815 Karl Weierstrass Germany, mathematician (theory of functions)
1825 Raleigh Edward Colston Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1826 Hugh Boyle Ewing Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1831 Daniel Butterfield Major General (Union volunteers)(Taps), died in 1901
1835 Adelbert Ames Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1933
1835 J F W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer German chemist (Nobel 1905
1860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
1887 Chiang Kai-shek Chekiang Province, China, pres of Nationalist China
1893 Sara Allgood Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase)
1896 Ethel Waters Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
1902 Eduard Franz Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Zorro)
1902 Willie Shaw race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40)
1912 Dale Evans Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
1920 Dick Francis Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes)
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught)
1923 Hicks B Waldron Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)
1930 Michael Collins Rome, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
1931 Dan Rather Wharton Tx, news anchor (Cbs Evening News, 60 Minutes)
1937 Michael Landon Forest Hills NY, actor (Bonanza,Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven)
1937 Tom Paxton Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn)
1942 David Ogden Stiers Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc)
1944 Kinky Friedman Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy)/ Writer (Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola)
1944 Sally Kirkland NYC, actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama)
1947 Deidre Hall Milwaukee, actress (Days of our Life, Our House)
1947 Frank Shorter US, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Terrence W Wilcutt Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut
1950 Jane Pauley Indianapolis Indiana, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend)
1950 John Candy Ontario Canada, comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck)
1960 Reza Pahlavi Iran, son of Shah of Iran
1961 Larry Mullen Jr drummer (U2-I Will Follow)
1964 Amanda Sandrelli Rome Italy, actress (The Key)
1968 Vanilla Ice [Robert Van Winkle], rapper (Ice Ice Baby)

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Deaths which occurred on October 31:
1448 Johannes VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantine, dies
1661 Koprulu Muhammad Pasha Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies
1723 Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81
1765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician/general (butchered Scots at Culloden)
1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51
1865 William Parson 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies
1918 Count Stephen Tisza Hungarian PM assassinated by soldiers
1926 Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit....or did he
1963 Henry Daniell actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69
1964 Theodore C Freeman astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
1965 Rita Johnson actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53
1975 Joseph Calleia actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78
1983 George "Papa Bear" Halas NFLer, dies at 88
1984 Indira Gandhi PM of India assassinated by 2 of her Sikh bodyguards
1987 Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83
1993 River Phoenix actor (Stand By Me), dies of drug overdose at 23
1993 Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73
2000 Oscar-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. at age 85
2001 Paul C. Warnke (Cold War arms negotiator) dies age 81

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
31-Oct-2003 2 | US: 1 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Corporal Ian Plank Not reported Hostile - hostile fire
US 2nd Lieutenant Todd J. Bryant Khaldiyah (nr. Fallujah) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

31-Oct-2004 2 | US: 1 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Staff Sergeant Denise Michelle Rose Basra - Basrah Non-hostile - weapon discharge
US 1st Lieutenant Matthew D. Lynch Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack




Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY


http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
0802 Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out
0834 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints

1517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation

1541 "The Last Judgement" by Michelangelo officially unveiled. (Sistine Chapel)
1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror
1803 Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America, adding territory to the U.S. which will eventually become 13 more states.
1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1838 A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children.
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
1943 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Brooklyn (48-10)
1950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC

1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
1956 Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st pres of S Vietnam 2nd Rep
1968 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
1968 President Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1974 Bundy victim (?) Laura Aime disappears in Utah
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
1982 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain
1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes
1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky diver
1992 Roman Catholic church rehabiltates (un-condemns) Galileo Galilei after 359 years.
2001 Saudi government issues an order to freeze assets of people and groups suspected of links to terrorism
2001 Former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson aka "Our Little Terrorist" pleads guilty to 2 felony accounts in Los Angeles to the attempted murder of police officers from activities with the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1975. She was later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
http://www.soliah.com/
2003 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi becomes Malaysia's first new prime minister in a generation, succeeding Mahathir Mohamad.
(Islamist parties get their heads handed to them)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Iran : Crown Prince's Birthday
Mass : Youth Honor Day
Nevada : Admission Day (1864)
St Lucia, St Vincent : Thanksgiving Day
US : All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
World : National UNICEF Day
Nevada Day.
Snap Apple Night (Victorian celebration).
Increase Your Psychic Powers Day
Turnip Night (Ireland).
National Liver Awareness Month

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Religious Observances
C : Vigil of All Saints
Feast of St Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop
France : All Saints Day Eve
Wicca : Samhain, sabbat
RC : Commemoration of St Quintin, martyr

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Religious History
0451 At the 15th Session of the Council of Chalcedon, Canon 28 was adopted, granting Constantinole a patriarchate extending over the civil dioceses of Pontus, Asia, and Thrace.
1517 German Augustinian monk Martin Luther, 31, nailed to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg a list of 95 theological points he wished to debate ... and touched off the Protestant Reformation!
1832 American Episcopal scholar George Washington Doane, 33, was consecrated as second Bishop of the Diocese of NJ. Doane is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Softly Now the Light of Day."
1852 Swiss moral philosopher Henry F. Amiel wrote in his journal: 'Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.'
1870 Birth of Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Scottish theologian. Teaching systematics at Edinburgh 1904-35, Mackintosh had a firm grasp of the German theological writers of his day and sought to make their teachings known in Britain, for which he was unfairly judged a liberal.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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YOUR TAX MONEY AT WORK!!!
Never surf a tsunami, California town says
31 October 2005

LOS ANGELES: An exclusive California beach enclave has raised eyebrows by passing out tsunami safety brochures that warn residents, in capital letters, that they should never try to surf one.

The pamphlets, part of an emergency preparedness campaign, inform residents of Malibu that tsunamis often follow large earthquakes and advise: "NEVER GO TO THE BEACH TO WATCH FOR, OR SURF, A TSUNAMI WAVE!"

"I'm speechless," Malibu surfer Candace Brown told the Los Angeles Times. "I think the last thing people will think about when they feel an earthquake is surfing."

Malibu's emergency preparedness director said he thought it would be prudent to address all possibilities.
"Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not," Brad Davis said.
"We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it."

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Thought for the day :
"Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play."
Joel Benton

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Make sure you know the lingo this Halloween ...
Boogieman: The guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose.
Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.
Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer.
Full Moon: What your repairman reveals when he bends over to fix your fridge.
Goblin: How you eat the snickers bars you got for Halloween.
Invisible Man: What a guy becomes when there's housework to be done. Also, see "Mr. Hyde."
Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.
Jack the Ripper: What Jack does to his lottery tickets after losing each week.
Mummy: The person who kisses the boo-boo after you scrape your knee.
Pumpkin Patch: What a pumpkin wears when trying to quit smoking.
Skeleton: Any supermodel.
Vampire Bat: What Dracula hits a baseball with.
Witch: See "Mother-in-Law."
Zombie: What you look like before that first cup of morning coffee

[snippy_about_it]

Good one. Thanks Valin.

[snippy_about_it]

Howdy PE.

[alfa6]

Could be, I grabbed the pic off of the wallpaper newsgroup.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

1944 Kinky Friedman Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy)/ Writer (Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola)

You forgot gubanatorial candidate.

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy ma'am

[snippy_about_it]

FYI


VA Warns of Telephone Prescription Scam
October 19, 2005


WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is warning veterans not to give credit card numbers over the phone to callers claiming to update VA prescription information.

"Some unscrupulous scammers have targeted America's veterans, especially our older veterans," said the Honorable R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "VA does not call veterans and ask them to disclose personal financial information over the phone."

The latest scam, currently centered in the Midwest, comes from callers who identify themselves as working for the "Patient Care Group." They say VA recently changed procedures for dispensing prescriptions and ask for the veteran's credit card number.

"VA has not changed its processes for dispensing prescription medicines," Nicholson said. "And we've definitely not changed our long-standing commitment to protect the personal information of our veterans."

Veterans with questions about VA services should contact the nearest VA medical center or call, toll-free, 1-877-222-8387.

[Ciexyz]

Here's hoping that our troops overseas and at home will remain safe under the blessing of the Lord's protection.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Valin]

OOOOHHHH That was a good one! :-)

[alfa6]

Treadhead Tuesdsay post Halloween to much candy, as usual, Bump for the Freeper Foxhole.

A pic of a Kettemkrad towing a 37mm ATG with a Tigersatz in the backgound.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Brenda Harris Tustian, a strong supporter of the Marine Corps and Marine affiliated organizations, talks about the inspiration behind her patriotic Santa paintings Oct. 3 in the foyer of Lejuene Hall.

Christmas is around the corner size.

Read all about it.

[Valin]

On This Day In history


Birthdates which occurred on November 01:
0846 Louis II the Stutterer, King of France (877-79)
1762 Spencer Perceval (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1798 Sir Benjamin Lee Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1815 Crawford Williamson Long surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1853 Jose Santos Zelaya (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1871 Stephen Crane US, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage)
1880 Grantland Rice sportswriter (NY Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1880 Sholem Asch Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1889 Philip John Noel-Baker statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59)
1892 Alexander Alekhine Russia, world chess champion (1927-46)
1896 Edmund Blunden English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1902 Nordahl Grieg Norwegian poet, dramatist, novelist (The Defeat)
1920 James J Kilpatrick Oklahoma City OK, columnist (60 Minutes)
1929 Betsy Palmer E Chicago IN, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1935 Gary Player South Africa, PGA golfer (US 1965, British 1959,68,74)
1937 Bill Anderson country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1939 Barbara Bosson Belle Vernon PA, actress (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1942 Larry Flynt smut peddling scumbag (Hustler)
1942 Marcia Wallace Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show)
1944 Keith Emerson England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1953 N Jan Davis Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS-47)
1954 Ruben Guerrero Mexico, relay swimmer (Olympic-1968)
1960 Fernando Valenzuela pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1960 Lyle Lovett country singer (Desert Rose Band,Here I Am)

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Deaths which occurred on November 01:
1700 Charles II King of Spain (1665-1700), dies
1894 Aleksandr III A Romanov czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49
1924 Bill Tilghman 71 (army scout, buffalo hunter, rancher, saloon keeper, state senator and lawman.)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtilghman.htm
1927 Florence Mills dancer/singer, dies at 32 in NYC
1947 Man O' War dies
1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead
1956 Lajos Asztalos International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1959 Gershon Agron mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a military coup
1972 Ezra Pound US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1975 Doro Merande actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1982 James Broderick actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 King Vidor director, dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1984 Norman Krasna writer/director, dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 Phil Silvers comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies at 73 in his sleep
1986 Paul Frees animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1987 Rene Levesque Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65
1994 Noah Beery Jr in California, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot), dies at 81
1999 Walter Payton dies at age 45 from a rare cancer of the bile duct.
2002 Israel Amir (99), the first commander of the Israeli air force (1948), died

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
01-Nov-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Maurice J. Johnson Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US 1st Lieutenant Joshua C. Hurley Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack


Afghanistan
11/01/04 Kearney III, James C. Specialist 22 Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack


http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
//////////
Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
0079 Mt Vesuvius blows it's top buries Pompei
1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1349 Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented
1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" 1st presented

1755 8.7 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000, levelled 85 percent of it's buildings

1765 Stamp Act went into effect in the British colonies. Prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants
1787 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 1st President to live in the white house (John Adams)
1834 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 1st US women's medical school opens (Boston)
1861 Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops
1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1869 Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion.
1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag
1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1910 1st issue of "The Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois
1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1917 First US soldiers are killed in combat in WWI
1922 Ottoman Empire abolished
1924 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1924 Legendary Oklahoma marshal Bill Tilghman, 71, is gunned down by a drunk probation officer he was arresting in Cromwell, Oklahoma.
1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 Lundy, part of the British Isles, issue their own stamps
1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London
1936 Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an "axis"
1936 Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1941 Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
1943 US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1945 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black President of Fisk University
1946 NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1950 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Fort Wayne IN
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House
1951 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
1954 General Fulgencio Batista "elected" pres of Cuba
1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact (Moscow is not...pleased)
1959 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 Greece enters the European Common Market
1962 USSR launches Mars 1, radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1963 Revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam
1964 George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1965 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco

1966 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets
1969 Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1973 Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appoints Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1976 Gilbert Is (Kiribati) obtains internal self-gov't from Britain
1977 Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1979 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1981 1st Class Mail raised from 18cents to 20cents
1981 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1985 Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1987 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2h11m1s)
1987 New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1987 NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1988 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1989 East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West. (the begining of the end)
1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original cabinet resigns, Deputy PM Sir Geoffrey Howe
1990 Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1993 European Union comes into existence
1996 Accused of peddling access to the Oval Office, President Clinton demanded an end to what he called the "escalating arms race" for political money.
2002 Scientists reported that 22-47% of Earth's plant species are in danger of becoming extinct due to human activity. (WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!)
2003 It's reported that over a dozen members of Saddam Hussein's government have been shot dead in the streets of Basra over the last month.
(This supposed to be a bad thing....I guess)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Algeria : Revolution Day (1954)
Antigua : State Day (1981)
Celtic : Samhain; beginning of year & most important holiday
San Marino : Commemoration of the Dead
Togo : Memorial Day
World Vegetation Day
USA : Fig Week begins (1st 7 days in Nov)
Vietnam : Revolution Day (1963)
Virgin Islands : Liberty Day
National Raisin Bread Month
Aviation History Month

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Religious Observances
Ang, RC, Luth : Solemnity of All Saints' Day (741)

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Religious History
0451 The Council of Chalcedon (located in modern Turkey) adjourned. Begun on Oct 8th, its 17 sessions were attended by over 500 bishops __ more than participated in any other ancient Church council.
1512 Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, 37, unveiled his 5,808_square_foot masterpiece, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He had been commissioned in 1508 by Pope Julius II to do a work depicting the whole story of the Bible.
1537 German reformer Martin Luther stated during one of his "Table Talks": 'There are many fluent preachers who speak at length but say nothing, who have words without substance.'
1950 Pope Pius XII proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. His Apostolic Constitution "Munificentissimus Deus" taught that, at the end of her earthly life, Jesus' mother was taken, body and soul, into heaven to be united with the risen Christ.
1963 English linguistic scholar J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a letter: 'In the last resort, faith is an act of will, inspired by love.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Woman buries herself for world peace

A Japanese woman buried herself in an underground pit in India for three days to try to create a better world.
Yogmata Japaki remained without food and water for 72 hours inside the 15ft pit in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh to bring peace and order to earth.

She was inspired by the recent earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir, reports Asian News International.
While the Buddhist woman meditated in the pit, her colleagues chanted religious hymns over ground.

After emerging from the pit she said: "I have prayed so that there is no suffering or disturbance. I am very happy that love and peace will be there."

Pilot Baba, a Hindu associate who witnessed the event, said: "The soul and the body gets purified by this."


("I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
Otto-Animal House)

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Thought for the day :
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'"