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
1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
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 (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
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)
1927 Robert Abernethy Geneva Switzerland, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1930 Herb Edelman Brooklyn NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
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)
1957 Jon-Erik Hexum Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
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)
1971 Corin "Corky" Nemec Little Rock AR, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis)
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
1982 Jacques Tati actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism
1989 Barry Sadler singer (Green Berets), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
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.
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1965 CHAPMAN HARLAN P.---ELYRIA OH.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1965 MC CLEARY GEORGE C.---BATON ROUGE LA.
[REMAINS RETURNED ID'D 05/91]
1967 COBEIL EARL GLENN---PONTIAC MI.
[03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED]
1967 DUTTON RICHARD A.---CHICAGO IL.
["03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, RIP 12/12/99]
1968 CORNTHWAITE THOMAS G.---GREAT BRITIAN
1968 SIMPSON JAMES E.
["ESCAPED, KILLED IN BINH THUAN"]
1969 ECHANIS JOSEPH---PORTLAND OR.
1969 LE FEVER DOUGLAS P.---ARCANUM OH.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
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"
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
1933 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
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)
1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1942 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1946 John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1953 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
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 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
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
1982 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1988 Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1989 US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1994 Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 Voters returned President Clinton to the White House for a second term
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.
2003 LisaMalia joins FreeRepublic Dennis Kucinich reported quaking in fear.
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
World : World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace) US : Impotency Week (Day 3)
US : Chemistry Week (Day 4)
US : Double Talk Week (Day 4)
National Neurofibromatosis Month
Religious Observances
Christian-Sweden : All Saints Day
RC : Commemoration of St Bertilla, virgin
Christian : Feast of Martin de Porres & Holy Relics
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.
Thought for the day :
"Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment."
Office Inspirational Sayings...
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
Children's stories that never made it...
Controlling the Playground: Respect Through Fear
Handy Latin Phrases...
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.
Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.
Redefining the English language
Flatulence (n.)
The emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
