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Today in History ~ November 2
Events1355 - English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais
1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1721 - Peter the Great Becomes Emperor of Russia
1749 - English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
1783 - Gen. George Washington issued his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, N.J.
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen William Henry Harrison routes Indians
1813 - Treaty of Fulda
1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 - 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1851 - Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1852 - Franklin Pierce elected president of US
1854 - Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
1880 - James A Garfield (R) elected president
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1898 - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1914 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - Victor Herbert's "Only Girl," premieres in NYC
1916 - Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour proposed a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Israel became a reality 31 years later.
1920 - Warren G Harding elected president
1921 - Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in NYC
1922 - Australian Qantas airways begins service
1923 - Bloody street fights in Aachen (pro-French separatists driven out)
1924 - Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
1928 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1934 - Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1936 - 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1941 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G)
1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time. [H]
1948 - President Truman surprised the experts by being re-elected in a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. [H]
1953 - Pakistan becomes Islamic republic
1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1955 - Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 - Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 - Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 - 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1959 - Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he'd been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the NBC TV program "Twenty-One."
1960 - Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" [H]
1962 - President Kennedy announced the Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1964 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia
1972 - Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1976 - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
1976 - NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1979 - Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus," premieres in London
1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr
1986 - American hostage David Jacobsen was released in Beirut after 17 months. Later disclosures showed his freedom was a trade for U.S. arms sent to Iran.
1988 - Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1991 - Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had run for the presidency in 1984 and 1988, announced he would not be a candidate in 1992.
1992 - 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1992 - HIV-infected Earvin "Magic" Johnson retired from professional basketball "for good."
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1993 - A new series of wildfires swept along the Southern California coast, destroying more than 300 homes in the exclusive community of Malibu.
1995 - The Justice Department indicted the Japanese-owned Daiwa Bank on conspiracy and fraud charges linked to an illegal bond-trading scheme.
1996 - Britain announced a plan to ban ownership of large caliber handguns.
1996 - A tentative labor contract was reached between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, averting a national strike.
1997 - French truck drivers began a weeklong strike, blockading major roads and ports.
2000 - An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of the international space station, christening it "Alpha" at the start of their four-month mission.
Birthdays Today
1734 - Daniel Boone (frontiersman, explorer; captured and adopted by Shawnee Indians as Big Turtle; captured by British)
1739 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1755 - Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
1795 - James Knox Polk, NC, 11th Pres (D) (1845-1849) Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Congress) was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
1810 - Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1815 - George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1857 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
1865 - Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (29th U.S. President [1921-1923]; 1st president to speak on radio) was born near Corsica, Ohio.
1901 - Paul Ford, Balt Md, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1913 - Burt Lancaster (Academy Award-winning actor: Elmer Gantry, [1960]; Trapeze, From Here to Eternity, The Bird Man of Alcatraz, The Unforgiven, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams, The Phantom of the Opera, The Rainmaker, The Rose Tattoo, Scorpio, Tough Guys, Airport, Come Back Little Sheba, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg; circus acrobat)
1914 - Ray Walston (Emmy Award-winning actor: Picket Fences [1995-96]; My Favorite Martian, Fast Times, Silver Spoons, Damn Yankees, South Pacific, The Apartment, Of Mice and Men, Popeye, The Silver Streak, The Sting)
1920 - Ann Rutherford (actress: Andy Hardy series, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Gone with the Wind; TV panelist: Leave it to the Girls)
1921 - Fernando Correia de Oliveira, composer
1926 - Charlie Walker (singer: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down, Don't Squeeze My Sharmon)
1936 - Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice
1937 - Earl "Speedoo" Carroll (singer: groups: Cadillacs: Speedoo, Peek-A-Boo; Coasters: Let's Go Get Stoned)
1938 - Jay Black (David Blatt) (singer: group: Jay and The Americans: Only in America, Come a Little Bit Closer, Cara Mia, Sunday and Me, This Magic Moment, Walkin' in the Rain; solo: The Part of Me that Needs You Most)
1940 - Jim Bakken (football: St. Louis Cardinals kicker: holds NFL Individual record: filed goals kicked in a game [7 - 9/24/67])
1941 - David Stockton (golf: PGA Champion: [1970])
1942 - Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory) (author: The Hite Report, Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women, A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality)
1942 - Stefanie Powers (Federkievicz) (actress: Hart to Hart, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Feather and Father Gang, McClintock!, Die! Die! My Darling, Herbie Rides Again, The Interns)
1944 - Patrice Chereau, actor (Danton)/director ("The Ring" at Bayreuth)
1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor
1953 - Alfre Woodard (Emmy Award-winning actress: Hill Street Blues: Alice in Wonderland [1983-1984]; guest performance: L.A. Law [1986-87]; St. Elsewhere, Tucker's Witch, Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Bopha, Heart and Souls)
1953 - Maxine Nightingale (singer: Lead Me On; actress: Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell)
1961 - Bobby Dall (musician: bass: group: Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn)
1967 - Charlie 'Steele' Pennachio (singer: group: Linear: Sending All My Love)
Famous deaths
1483 - Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of England, beheaded at 49
1887 - Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1956 - Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77
1960 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64
1961 - James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1984 - Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electrocuted in 22 years
1992 - Hal Roach, producer, dies of pneumonia at 100 He was credited with discovering the legendary comedy team of Laurel and Hardy and went on to produce the "Our Gang" and Keystone Kops comedies.
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