On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 05:
1534 Joachim Camerarius German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog)
1818 Benjamin F Butler Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly)
1849 Rui Barbosa Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1855 Eugene V Debs labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1885 Will Durant writer/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 Paul Wittgenstein Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1911 Roy Rogers Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 Natalie Schaeffer Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)
1913 John McGiver NYC, actor (The Manchurian Candidate-Sen. Thomas Jordan)
1913 Vivien Leigh (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
1915 Moe Biller NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1919 Myron Floren Webster San Diego CA, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1931 Ike Turner AKA Mr Tina Turner!, singer (A Fool in Love)
1932 Arthur L Liman NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1942 Art Garfunkel NYC, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 Elke Sommer Berlin Germany, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1943 Sam Shepard US, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1946 Patricia K Kuhl speech & hearing scientist
1947 Oleg Antropov USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Peter Noone rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouettes)
1952 Bill Walton NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1959 Bryan Adams Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Heaven)
1963 Andrea McArdle Philadelphia PA, actress (Annie); "Sun Will Come Out Tommorrow"
1963 Tatum O'Neal Los Angeles CA, Mrs John MacEnroe (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1969 Jennifer Guthrie Willimantic CT, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
Deaths which occurred on November 05:
1370 Kazimierz III ("The Great"), king of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1879 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1942 George M Cohan, composer/actor/dancer, dies at 64 (I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Oh how I hate to get up in the morning)
1960 Ward Bond actor(Wagon Train), dies at 55
1974 Stafford Repp actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1979 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70
1989 Barry Sadler singer (Green Berets), dies at 49
1989 Vladamir Horowitz pianist, dies at 85
1990 Meir Kahane, the US rabbi who founded the militant Jewish Defense League and was thrown out of Israel's parliament for his racist anti-Arab views -- gunned down by a terrorist (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair was convicted of the slaying in federal court.)
1991 Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991 Robert Maxwell Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
2000 Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's "singing governor," died in Baton Rouge; he was believed to be 101.
2003 Bobby Hatfield (63), the tenor half of The Righteous Brothers found dead (acute cocaine intoxication)
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
05-Nov-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant 1st Class Jose A. Rivera Mahmudiyah (near) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
05-Nov-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Carlos M. Camacho-Rivera Baghdad (31st CS Hospital) Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1219 The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1556 The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire
1605 Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged
1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the US in Congress assembled"
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota
1862 Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1895 King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
9Speak for yourself!)
1895 US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1911 Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 Britain annexes Cyprus
1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville KY ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1925 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1927 Walter Hagen wins his 4th straight PGA championship
1930 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his 1922 novel "Babbit."
1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1938 Rutgers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated
1940 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) & Surprise Party challenger Gracie Allen.
1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1946 John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1953 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds
1956 Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1959 AFL announced with 8 teams
1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1968 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain
1968 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1969 Bobby Seale, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court (Chicago Eight)
1971 NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1977 NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"(right back at ya guy!)
1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1994 George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round
1994 Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 Voters returned President Clinton to the White House for a second term
1999 US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in a finding of fact that Microsoft Corp. is a monopoly and has wielded its power to stifle competition. He said the software giant’s aggressive actions were “stifling innovation” and hurting consumers. (and rules the world, Bill Gates is in point of fact the anti-christ) .
2000 Thousands of people in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia protest the rule of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
2002 Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and retained their hold on the House, giving President George W. Bush a historic victory in mid-term elections that traditionally go against the incumbent president.
2002 China completes the Three Gorges Dam (Yangtze River). The worlds largest hydroelectricity and flood control project
2003 President Bush signs a ban on partial birth abortion, but a federal judge in Nebraska immediately blocked its implementation in some states.
2003 Democratic presidential hopeful Howard "The Duck" Dean apologized for urging Democrats to court Southern whites who displayed Confederate flags on their pickup trucks.
2004 US warplanes pounded Fallujah in what residents called the strongest attacks in months, as more than 10,000 American soldiers and Marines massed for an expected assault
(
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,79491,00.html With No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, Bing West)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
El Salvador : 1st Cry for Independence (1811)
England : Guy Fawkes Day
Sweden : All Saints Day
US : Chemistry Week (Day 5)
US : Double Talk Week (Day 5)
National Neurofibromatosis Month
Religious Observances
Christian-Sweden : All Saints Day
RC : Commemoration of St Bertilla, virgin
Christian : Feast of Martin de Porres & Holy Relics
Hopi : Fire Ceremony
Religious History
1917 In Moscow, following abdication of Russian Czar Nicholas II, the historic Orthodox Church Council of 1917_1918 restored the office of patriarch, suppressed by Peter the Great in 1700.
1935 The Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists (northern U.S.) and the General Conference of Free Will Baptists (southern U.S.) merged in Nashville, TN, to form the National Association of Free Will Baptists.
1950 Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" program was first broadcast over television.
1959 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.'
1970 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The Bible does not minimize sexual sin, but neither does it make it different from any other sin.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Deer Almost Takes Out Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Nov 3, 4:21 PM (ET)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - He was antlered and dangerous - and he almost took out Gov. Tim Pawlenty. As Pawlenty arrived for work at the Capitol Thursday, he and his entourage heard shattering glass and then saw a big buck charge past about five feet from them. The deer broke two windows at the Capitol before bounding off.
The state's deer hunting season officially opens Saturday, and Pawlenty is headed to the northwestern Minnesota city of Perham for his annual kickoff event.
Pawlenty said the parking lot incident was a good omen.
"We could have had the governor's deer opener right here at the Capitol," Pawlenty said. "If that's any indication, the deer hunting is going to go well this year."
State natural resources officials say the urban deer herd is much larger than usual this year. Ramsey County, which includes St. Paul, is considering hiring sharp shooters to thin the deer population along freeways and other well-traveled areas.
It's the mating season for deer, when rutting bucks sometimes charge their own reflections in windows.
Thought for the day :
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
Will Durant
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