November 2
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Celebrate November 2:
All Souls Day - Celebrate your dear departed on this day. A Catholic festival that is celebrated to extreem in Mexico as Los Dias de Los
Muertos. It is often celebrated there from the eve of Halloween to All Souls Day.
Broadcast Journalist Day - Celebrates TV and Radio reporters. Sponsor: WPOK/WJEZ Radio, Pontiac, Il.
James Polk's Birthday - Born this day in 1795, he was the 11th U.S. President.
South Dakota Admission Day - South Dakota became the 40th U. S. state on this day in 1889.
Warren Gamaliel Harding's Birthday - The 29th president of the U. S. was born in Ohio on this day in 1865.
Born on this Day
1470: Edward IV, King of England
1734: Frontiersman Daniel Boone
1755: Marie Antoinette, queen of France
1795: James K. Polk, 11th President
(1845-1849)
1865: Warren G. Harding, 29th President
(1921-1923) He was the 1st president to speak on radio.
1885: Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
19??: Todd Collins (Gotee Brothers)
1913: Actor Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry,
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: Actor Ray Walston (Picket Fences, My
Favorite Martian, Fast Times, Silver Spoons, Damn Yankees, South Pacific, The Apartment,
Of Mice and Men, Popeye, The Silver Streak, The Sting)
1920: Actress Ann Rutherford (Andy Hardy
series, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Gone with the Wind; TV panelist: Leave it to the
Girls)
1926: Country singer Charlie Walker (Pick Me
Up on Your Way Down, Don't Squeeze My Sharmon)
1937: Rhythm-and-blues singer Earl
"Speedo" Carroll (The Cadillacs; The Coasters)
1938: Political commentator Patrick J.
Buchanan
1938: Singer Jay Black (David Blatt) (From the
group: Jay and The Americans - songs: Only in America, Come a Little Bit Closer, Cara Mia,
Sunday and Me, This Magic Moment, Walkin' in the Rain)
1940: Football player Jim Bakken
1941: PGA golf champion David Stockton
1942: Actress Stefanie Powers (Stefanie Federkievicz) (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)
1942: Author Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory) (The
Hite Report, Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women, A Nationwide Study of
Female Sexuality)
1944: Rock musician Keith Emerson (Emerson,
Lake and Palmer)
1953: Singer-actress Maxine Nightingale (Hair,
Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell)
1953: Actress Alfre Woodard (Hill Street
Blues, St. Elsewhere, Tucker's Witch, Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion
Fish, Bopha, Heart and Souls)
1961: Singer-songwriter k.d. lang
1963: Rock musician Bobby Dall (Poison)
1967: Rhythm-and-blues singer Alvin Chea (Take
6)
1967: Singer Charlie 'Steele' Pennachio
1974: Rapper Prodigy (Mobb Deep)
1975: Actor Danny Cooksey ("Diff'rent Strokes")
0472: Death of Olybrius,
Emperor of the West
1082: Death of Matilda, Wife
and Queen of William I, King of England
1328: James the Butler named
Irish Earl of Ormonde
1483: Execution of the Duke
of Buckingham by Richard III
1570: A tidal wave destroys
the sea-wall from Holland to Jutland
1772: The first Committees
of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1783: General George
Washington issued his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, New Jersey
1789: The property of the
Church in France is taken away by the state.
1795: The eleventh president
of the United States, James Knox Polk, was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
1830: Chopin left Poland,
for good. He went to Vienna first, but found that the Viennese were less interested in him
than on a previous visit to the city. That's what sent Chopin to Paris, where he would
find his greatest fame.
1835: The Provisional
Government of Texas put Sam Houston in charge of the Texas revolutionary army.
1841: The second Afghan War
begins.
1869: Sheriff Wild Bill
Hickok loses his reelection bid in Ellis County, Kansas
1865: The 29th president of
the United States, Warren Gamaliel Harding, was born near Corsica, Ohio.
1889: North and South Dakota
became the 39th and 40th states of the Union.
1917: British Foreign
Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of
Palestine in what came to be known as "The Balfour Declaration."
1920: KDKA (Pittsburgh) on
the air as 1st commercial radio station.
1921: The American Birth
Control League is formed by Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett.
1929: Newsreel Theatre
opened in New York City. Newsreel films were shown at the Embassy Theatre.
1930: Haile Selassie was
crowned emperor of Ethiopia. Today's History Focus
1931: The DuPont company, of
Wilmington, Delaware, announced the first synthetic rubber. It was known as
DuPrene.
1937: "I'd Rather be
Right" opened in New York City. The humorous play about the U.S. presidency satirized
the highest office in the land as it related to Franklin Roosevelt.
1947: Howard Hughes piloted
his huge wooden airplane, known as the "Spruce Goose," on its only flight, which
lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1948: President Truman
surprised the experts by being re-elected in a narrow upset over Republican challenger
Thomas E. Dewey.
1950: George Bernard Shaw,
Irish-born playwright and critic, died
1955: The first pop song, by
Julie London appeared on the charts. London's smoky and sultry rendition of "Cry Me a
River"stayed on the pop chart for five months, reaching as high as #9.
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: Dmitri Mitropoulos
dropped dead while rehearsing Mahler's Third Symphony. It happened at La
Scala. Mahler's
Third is a long symphony it won't fit on one CD and its conclusion is slow and sad.
Mitropoulos was one of the conductors who brought Mahler's music back to public notice.
1960: During a major trial
in England, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found - not guilty - of
obscenity.
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.
1963: After giving benefit
performances for years, singer Kate Smith presented her first full concert performance to
a paying crowd at Carnegie Hall in New York City this day.
1976: Former Georgia
Governor 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.
1979: Black militant Joanna
Chesimard escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for
the 1973 slaying of a New Jersey state trooper.
1983: Reagan signs a bill
establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
1984: Velma Barfield,
convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend, was put to death by injection in
Raleigh, North Carolina, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since
1962.
1985: The government of
South Africa imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of
unrest by both local and foreign journalists.
1986: Shiite Muslim
kidnappers in Lebanon released American hostage David Jacobson after holding him for 17
months
1987: Zhao Ziyang was
appointed head of China's Communist Party, succeeding his mentor, Deng
Xiaoping.
1988: A computer
"worm" unleashed by a Cornell University graduate student began replicating,
clogging thousands of computers around the country, but causing no real damage.
1989: President Bush and
congressional Republicans dropped their quest for a cut in the capital gains tax rate
during the session of Congress that was in progress.
1990: The White House announced that President Bush planned to spend Thanksgiving with American soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
1991: The Rev. Jesse
Jackson, who had run for the presidency in 1984 and 1988, announced he would not be a
candidate in 1992.
1992: On the eve of Election
Day 1992, President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton both stumped at a furious
pace in several states.
1992: Movie producer Hal
Roach died in Los Angeles at age 100.
1992: Basketball star Magic
Johnson retired again, this time for good because of fear caused by his HIV infection.
1993: The Senate called for
full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries as part of a probe into allegations of
sexual harassment and possible criminal wrongdoing by the Oregon Republican.
1993: Wildfires in Southern
California pushed through areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties,
burning 35,000 acres and 200 homes.
1994:A jury in Pensacola,
Florida, convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider
and his bodyguard; Hill was sentenced to death.
1994: In Durunka, Egypt,
more than 475 people were killed when fuel carried by floodwaters ignited.
1995: A man claiming to have
a bomb hijacked a school bus with 13 learning-disabled children aboard, leading
authorities around Miami-area highways for 11/2 hours before being fatally shot by police.
1995: The United States
expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.
1995: A man claiming to have a bomb hijacked a school bus with 13 learning-disabled children aboard, leading authorities around Miami-area highways for an hour and a half before being fatally shot by police.
1996: A tentative labor
contract was reached between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, averting a
national strike.
1996: British Telecom agreed
to buy MCI Communications for up to $21 billion (however, the deal has since been
jeopardized by competing offers for MCI).
1997: A labor agreement
between Amtrak and maintenance workers averted a possible national passenger rail strike.
1997: Iraq barred two
American weapons experts from entering the country, the second such refusal in a week.
1998: Central American
officials estimated more than seven-thousand people had died in floods and mudslides
triggered by Hurricane "Mitch."
1998: Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates testified at his company's antitrust trial, appearing on videotape inside a
federal courtroom in Washington.
1999: Xerox repairman Byran Uyesugi opened fire on his coworkers in Honolulu, killing seven of them. (Uyesugi was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
1999: Republicans pushed the year's last and biggest spending bill through Congress toward a sure veto by President Clinton.
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