Today in History

1880
James&John Ritty patented the 1st cash register
1922
archaelogist,Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt
1948
author/poet,T.S.Eliot received Nobel prize for Literature
1979
500 Iranian students seize the U. S. Embassy in Tehran hold 90 people hostage for 444 days
2008
Barack OBama becomes the 1st African American U.S. President.He defeated Sen John McCain{R,AZ}
 

The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to blow up England’s King James I (1566-1625) and the Parliament on November 5, 1605. The plot was organized by Robert Catesby (c.1572-1605) in an effort to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English government. Catesby and others hoped to replace the country’s Protestant government with Catholic leadership.
 
5th November, 1950: Life With The Lyons, a sitcom written by actress Bebe Daniels and husband Ben Lyon and starring their family, was first heard on BBC Radio.
 

Nov 6th
1928
Col John Schick patents 1st electric razor
1947
NBC's "Meet The Press' debuts,is U.S. longest running TV show still on the air
I enjoyed watching the show when {Buffalo's favorite son} late Tim Russert, was the moderator. He started in 1991 until his sudden death in 2008
 
7th November.

Born today in 1728...Captain James Cook, explorer, navigator and cartographer, famous for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean and for the circumnavigation of New Zealand.
 
1929
MOMA {Museum of Modern Art} in NYC opens to the public
1965
The'Pillsbury Dough Boy' debuts in TV commericals
1973
New Jersey became the 1st state allowing girls to play in Boy's Little League Baseball
1991
Magic Johnson retired from LA Lakers basketball team when he announced he has HIV virus
 
Today in 1605...Robert Catesby, charismatic ringleader of the Gunpowder plotters, is killed at Holbeche House in Staffordshire. He and Thomas Percy are apparently hit by the same musket ball, both dying soon after. Catesby's head is later taken to London and exhibited outside Parliament as a warning to others.
 
1889
Montana is admitted as 41st state in Union
1965
NBC's soap opera'Days of Our Lives' debuts,still on the air
I used to watch this show in the 70's and 80's
 
Nov 9th
1842
George Bruce of NYC is granted a patent for his design of typefaces and borders
1967
The 1st issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published with John Lennon on the cover
 
Nov 10th
1885
German engineer,Gottieb Daimler unveils worlds 1st motorcycle
1911
Industralist/Philanthropist,Andrew Carneige forms Carneige Corp for scholarly&charitable works
1969
Sesame Street, children's educational TV show debuts on PBS
 
Today in 1871...Henry Morton Stanley famously greets Dr Livingstone with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" The missing explorer and missionary is finally located by Stanley near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, Africa.
 
Today in 1920...The Cenotaph in Whitehall was unveiled by King George V on Armistice Day. The Unknown Warrior, with Admirals, Marshals and Generals as pall-bearers, was taken by gun carriage to the Cenotaph on the way to Westminster Abbey where he was laid to rest. The King laid a wreath on the gun carriage before unveiling the monument on the stroke of 11am. At the end of the Silence, he laid the first wreath on the new monument.
 
1851
Alvin Clark patents the telescope
1864
Mary Edward Walker,1st U.S.Army female surgeon is awarded Medal of Honor
1981
LA Dodgers's,Fernado Valenzula became the 1st pitcher to win both rookie of the year&Cy Young Award in same season
 
Today in 1912...the frozen bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his South Pole expedition companions Henry “Birdie” Bowers and Edward Wilson were discovered by a search party. The positions of the bodies in the tent suggested that Scott was the last of the three to die. The bodies were buried under the tent, with a cairn of snow and ice to mark the spot.
 
On November 13, A.D. 1002, Æthelred Unræd, ruler of the English kingdom of Wessex, “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England,” according to a royal charter. This drastic step was not taken on a whim, but was the product of 200 years of Anglo-Saxon frustration and fear. Vikings, who had long plagued the Isles with raids and wars, had taken over the north and begun settling there. Concerns were growing that they had designs on Æthelred’s southern realm as well.
 
1789
Benjamin Franklin wrote"nothing certain but death and taxes'
1940
Walt Disney's animated movie'Fantasia' released
1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial open to public in Washington,DC.It has names of over 58,000 U.S. soldiers killed or missing in Vietnam War
 
Nov 14
1856
U.S. inventor/manufacturer,Gail Borden receives patent related to his invention of condensed milk
1896
power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1988
CBS sitcom'Murphy Brown' '88-'98 debuts.Candice Bergen "Murphy' works in a fictious newsroom in Washington,DC. She was the star reporter for a weekly news magazine'FYI"
Last yr,CBS 'rebooted' the show which was a 'dud',was cancelled after couple episodes
1993
Miami Dolphins head coach,Don Shula sets a new NFL record with his 325th victory
 
Nov 15
1904
King C.Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1939
Pres. Franklin D.Roosevelt lays cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington,DC
1969
Wendy's Hamburger U.S. fast food chain founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus,Ohio
2017
Leonardo daVinci's painting,'Salvator Mundi' sells for $ 450.3 million at NYC auction ,world's record price for any art work
 
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Meant to post this the other day....then forgot.

Nov 10, 1975 the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald....on lake Superior.....29 lives lost ............
 

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