Today in History

Births On This Day, November 1st 🎂

1972 Jenny McCarthy
American model, actress, author

1967 Tina Arena
Australian singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1935 Edward Said
Palestinian/American theoretician

1871 Stephen Crane
American journalist, author, poet

1864 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine

Deaths On This Day, November 1st 🪦

2015 Fred Thompson
American politician, actor

2012 Agustín García Calvo
Spanish philosopher, poet

1999 Walter Payton
American football player

1972 Ezra Pound
American poet

1678 William Coddington
American politician, 1st Governor of Rhode Island
 

1570
All Saints Flood tidal wave in North Sea devastates the coast of Holland to Jutland, 1,000 people die
1800
John Adams becomes the 1st U.S. President to Live in the White House
1924
Boston Bruins become the 1st U.S. based hockey team to offically join the National Hockey League.
1938
Seabiscuit with jockey,Geroge Woolf aboard defeated 1937 Triple Crown winner, 'War Admiral' by 3 lengths at Pimlico track won $15,000. Its regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history
1969
Beatles album'Abbey Road' debuts at #1 on U.S. music charts, stays there for 11 weeks
1997
movie' Titantic' written/driected by James Cameron is released. The story of the maiden voyage of RMS Titantic in 1912 when it hits an iceberg,sinks. The cast Leonardo DeCaprio,Kate Winslet{doomed lovers, 'Jack&Rose'}, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Gloria Stuart. The movie won 11 Oscars inc picture/director, music score{James Horner}
2012
Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
 

Nov 1st Birthdays:
1935
Gary Player,- South African golfer, won 9 major golf titles
1949
David Foster- Canadian music producer/ arranger/ composer worked with Celine Dion,Chicago
1960
Tim Cook- Apple Inc CEO since 2011
Deaths:
1982
James Broderick -actor best known TV role' Doug Lawrence' in ABC drama 'Family' his son is actor Matthew Broderick 55{cancer}
1994
Noah Berry,Jr- actor best known TV role' Rocky' played james garner's dad in NBC detective series' The Rockford Files' 81
1999
Walter Payton- NFL Pro Hall of Fame running back with the Chicago Bears 45
 
2 November 2000
The first resident crew—including one American and two Russians—arrived at the International Space Station.
They spent four months onboard completing tasks necessary to bring the ISS "to life" and began what is now more than 20 years of continuous human presence in space.
 
On This Day In History, October 2nd

1982 Ronald Reagan signs a bill to create Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The day, observed every year on the third Monday of January, commemorates the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. a leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

1964 Coup in Saudi Arabia
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud takes over the government of Saudi Arabia while his half-brother, King Saud is overseas for medical reasons.

1938 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
Officially known as CBC/Radio-Canada, the network is Canada's public radio and television broadcaster.

1930 Haile Selassie I becomes the emperor of Ethiopia
Considered a leading figure in the Rastafari movement, Selassie reigned over Ethiopia for 44 years.

1917 Balfour Declaration
Originally sent as a letter on this day to Baron Rothschild from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, it declared British support for a Jewish state in Palestine. The letter was eventually added to Sevres's peace treaty.
 
Births On This Day, November 2nd 🎂

1965 Shahrukh Khan
Indian actor

1934 Ken Rosewall
Australian tennis player

1865 Warren G. Harding
American politician, 29th President of the United States

1755 Marie Antoinette
Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France

971 Mahmud of Ghazni

Deaths On This Day, November 2nd 🪦

2007 The Fabulous Moolah
American wrestler

2004 Theo van Gogh
Dutch director

1966 Peter Debye
Dutch/American physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1963 Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam

1950 George Bernard Shaw
Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
 
Holidays and events on this day, November 2nd

All Saints Day- Bolivia, El Salvador

All Soul's Day- Estonia, Macau

All Souls Day- Venezuela

All Souls' Day- Angola, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and 17 other places

The arrival of Indentured Labourers- Mauritius
 
1867
woman's magazine Harper's Bazaar' is 1st published
1936
Canadian Broadcasting Corp{CBC} is established
1947
billionaire/ pilot/designer, Howard Hughes flies the' Spruce Goose' a huge wooden airplane for the 1st and last time. It had a 320 ft wingspan,powered by 8 propeller engines. It cost $40 mill,Hughes gave $18mil
1983
Michael Jackson's single' Thriller' is released worldwide, It was the last single from the album of the same name,produced by Quincy Jones.It reached # 4 on the music charts,written by Ron Templeton
 
Nov 2nd Birthdays:
1734
Daniel Boone- explorer/ frontiersman
1901
Paul Ford-actor, best known movie role' Mayor Shin' in 'The Music Man' '62
1913
Burt Lancaster- Elmer Gantry, From Here to Eternity, Field of Dreams
1934
Ken Rosewall- retired Australian tennis player, won 8 Grand Slam singles titles
1961
K.D. Lang- Canadian country/pop singer/songwriter' Constant Craving'
Deaths:
1950
George Bernard Shaw- Irish playwright' Pygmalion' 94
1991
Irwin Allen- film/TV producer "Land of the Giants, The Poseidon Adventure' 75
 
On This Day In History, November 3rd

1978 Dominica gains independence
The Caribbean Island nation gained its independence from the British after being colonized in 1805.

1973 NASA launches Mariner 10
The last of the Mariner Program, Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to flyby two planets - Venus and Mercury. The probe flew by Venus on February 5, 1974, and did 3 flybys of Mercury on March 29, 1974, September 21, 1974, and on March 16, 1975, after which communications with the probe were terminated.

1954 Godzilla released
The Japanese science fiction starring a mutated monster of the same name became an instant hit.

1868 John Willis Menard elected to U.S. House of Representatives
He became the first African-American to be elected to the house.

1838 The Times of India founded
The world's largest English-language daily was launched as a bi-weekly as the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in Bombay, India.
 
Births On This Day, November 3rd 🎂

1957 Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor

1949 Anna Wintour
English/American journalist, editor

1933 Amartya Sen
Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1918 Bob Feller
American baseball player

1815 John Mitchel
Irish journalist, activist

Deaths On This Day, November 3rd 🪦

1996 Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Central African politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic

1957 Wilhelm Reich
Austrian/American psychotherapist

1954 Henri Matisse
French painter

1926 Annie Oakley
American target shooter

361 Constantius II
Roman Emperor
 
1896
JH Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1900
1st U.S. automobile show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
1956
TV debut of 1939 movie' The Wizard of Oz' on CBS,hosted by Bert Lahr{he played 'Cowardly Lion"} 10 yr old, Liza Minnelli{Judy Garland's daughter}
1971
movie' Play Misty For Me' directed by Clint Eastwood. The story is about a late night radio DJ{Eastwood} who is being stalked by a homicidal ex-fan{Jessica Walter} others in cast Donna Mills, John Larch ,Jack Ging. This was Eastwood's debut as a film director
1992
Whitney Houston's single'I Will Always Love You{written by Dolly Parton} is released.The song was featured in the the '92 movie' The Bodyguard' starring Houston&Kevin Costner.The song was #1 on music charts for 14 weeks
 
Nov 4th Birthdays:
1900
Adolf Dassler- German founder of Adidas sportswear company
1918
Bob Feller- Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher with Cleveland Indians
1933
John Barry- British film composer' Born Free, Dances with Wolves,Out of Africa
1956
Gary Ross- film director' Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games
Deaths:
1954
Henri Mattise- French impressionist painter 84
1990
Mary Martin- Broadway actress who orginated the roles of 'Nellie Forbush in 'South Pacific',"Peter Pan,'Maria von Trapp' in Sound of Music' 76.Her son was actor Larry Hagman
2002
Jonathan Harris- actor, best known TV role' Dr Zachary Smith' in CBS sci fi show' Lost In Space' 87
2010
Jim Clench, Canadian bass player/songwriter with group Bachman-Turner Overdrive 61{cancer}
 
On This Day In History, November 4th

2008 Barack Obama is elected
The first African-American to be elected President of the United States, Obama is the 44th person to occupy the Oval Office. He succeeded President George W. Bush and he has been elected to office twice.

1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
He was the Prime Minister of Israel when he was killed in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, an Israel who opposed the role that Rabin played in the Oslo Peace Accords. The Accords were a collection of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that set up the process of Palestinian self-determination and created the Palestinian Authority.

1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
The 444-day crisis began when a group of students took over the American Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostages. The crisis led to a breakdown in American and Iranian diplomatic relations.

1952 US National Security Agency formed
The NSA as it is popularly known is an intelligence organization that is responsible for monitoring and collecting signal intelligence around the world. The agency was preceded by the Armed Forces Security Agency.

1925 First woman governor of a state in the US
Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first and only female governor of the state of Wyoming in the United States. In addition to being the first woman to be ever elected as a state governor in the US, she was also the first female director of the United States Mint.
 
Births On This Day, November 4th 🎂

1960 Kathy Griffin
American comedian, actress

1957 Tony Abbott
Australian politician

1951 Traian Băsescu
Romanian politician, 4th President of Romania

1933 Charles K. Kao
Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1916 Walter Cronkite
American journalist

Deaths On This Day, November 4th 🪦

2015 René Girard
French historian, critic, philosopher

2008 Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, director, producer

1995 Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate

1924 Gabriel Fauré
French pianist, composer, educator

1847 Felix Mendelssohn
German pianist, composer, conductor
 
1846
Benjamin Palmer in Meredith, NH patents artifical leg
1939
The 1st air conditioned automobile,Packard exhibited in Chicago
1979
500 Iranian students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, take 90 people hostage for 444 days
2001
The 1st film adaption of JK Rowlings's 'Harry Potter' books, 'Harry Potter &The Philosopher's Stone' is released directed by Chris Columbus. The story is about 11yr old Harry{Daniel Radcliffe} Ron[Rupert Gint} Hermoine{Emma Watson} as they attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft&Wizardly other cast members, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane,Alan Richman. The movie's opening weekend take was $90 mill
2008
Barack O'Bama becomes the 1st African-American to be elected U.S. Pres. he defeated Sen John McCain{R AZ}
 

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