On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 07:
0994 Muhammad ibn Hazm historian/jurist/writer of Islamic Spain
1598 Francisco de Zurbaran Spain, Baroque painter (baptized)
1832 Andrew Dickson White educator/1st President of Cornell
1867 Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)
1876 Culbert Olson Fillmore UT, (Gov-D-Cal)
1879 Leon Trotsky Russian Communist theorist, Founded the Red Army, Bolshevik
1883 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux Newport News VA, TV preacher
1888 Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1903 Dean Jagger Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
1903 Konrad Lorenz zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973)
1913 Albert Camus Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)
1916 Joe Bushkin NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)
1918 Billy Graham Charlotte NC, evangelist (Crusades)
1922 Al Hirt New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)
1926 Joan Sutherland Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera)
1936 Barry Newman Boston MA, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli)
1936 Gwyneth Jones Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walkyre)
1937 Mary Travers (singer, Peter, Paul and Mary)
1938 Dee Clark Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You)
1938 James Katt pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1942 Johnny Rivers singer (Secret Agent Man)
1943 Joni Mitchell Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds)
1944 Joe Niekro baseball knuckler (NY Yankees)
1949 Judy Tenuda comedienne (Spotlight Cafe)
1957 Dr Jonathan Palmer formula-1 racer
1957 Kathy McMillan long jumper (1976 Olympics silver)
1961 Mintcho Pachov Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifter (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1964 Liam O'Maonlai rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1972 Christopher Daniel Barnes actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 Clive B. Barnes Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
Deaths which occurred on November 07:
0739 Willibrord [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1796 Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
1837 Elijah P Lovejoy publisher, murdered by proslavery mob
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt Former 1st Lady, dies at 78 in NYC
1978 Gene Tunney former heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 80
1980 Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor, dies at 50
1992 Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, comedian/writer (SNL), dies at 54
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
07-Nov-2003 7 | US: 7 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Morgan DeShawn Kennon Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Command Sergeant Major Cornell W. Gilmore I Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Captain Benedict J. Smith Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Sergeant Scott C. Rose Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Staff Sergeant Paul M. Neff II Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Chief Warrant Officer (CW3) Kyran E. Kennedy Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Chief Warrant Officer (CW5) Sharon T. Swartworth Tikrit (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
07-Nov-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant 1st Class Otie Joseph McVey Beaver, WV Non-hostile - illness
US Specialist Quoc Binh Tran Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Lance Corporal Sean M. Langley Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Brian K. Baker Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
Afghanistan
11/07/01 Davis, Bryant L. Machinist’s Mate Fireman Apprentice 20 Navy Arabian Sea
11/07/02 Pena, Pedro Specialist 35 Army Kuwait
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0680 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
1631 Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1805 Lewis & Clark 1st sight Pacific Ocean
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
(Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.)
http://www.multied.com/documents/Tippacanoe.html 1814 Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force.
1837 Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Ill
1864 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1874 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist for "Harper’s Weekly", created a satirical drawing of an elephant about to fall into a giant hole. The elephant represented the Republican party and lampooned Ulysses S. Grant’s (R) possible bid for a third term.
1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equatorial Africa
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD in US college (Yale)
1876 Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College
1876 President Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory
1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 State Colorado accept female suffrage
1909 Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 Jeannette Rankin (Mont-R-Rep) 1st woman Representative
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President
1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks
1917 Russia's October (Bolshevik) Revolution continued as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1921 Benito Mussolini declares himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1942 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1951 Constitution of Jordan passed
1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1962 Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around
1963 1st black AL MVP-Elston Howard, NY Yankees
1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1967 Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into the little league
1976 "Gone With the Wind" televised
1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1985 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
1988 MLB all stars beat Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989 NYC elects its 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from Lakers
2000 Americans went to the polls for an election that would result in indecision for George W. Bush and Al Gore, with Florida's disputed electoral votes emerging as critical.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
2001 U.S. led jets resumed bombing in northern Afghanistan, targeting Taliban positions near the country's northeastern border with Tajikistan.
2002 Atlanta police said ballistic tests have linked a fatal shooting at an Atlanta liquor store in September to the suspected Washington-area snipers.
2004 Battle for Fallujah begins.
http://www.talkingproud.us/Military042805.html
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Mexico : National Railway Memorial Day (1907)
USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia : October Revolution Day (1917)
US : PMS Stress Day
US : Pun Day (A pun is it's own reword)
World : International Cat Week (Day 2)
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
International Doll Collectors Month
Religious Observances
Christian : World Community Day (pray for peace)
RC, Ang : Com of St Willibrord, archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia
Luth : Commemoration of John Heyer, missionary to India
Religious History
1637 Controversial colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson, 46, was convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mrs. Hutchinson afterward relocated in Rhode Island with her family and friends.
1793 During the French Revolution, "Christianity" was abolished on this date. Reason was deified, and as many as 2,000 churches were afterward destroyed throughout France.
1828 Birth of American biblical lexicographer Joseph Henry Thayer. A Congregationalist pastor, Thayer's main interest was New Testament language and in 1886 he published his definitive "Greek_English Lexicon of the New Testament."
1837 American Presbyterian abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, 35, was murdered. Forced earlier to move his business from St. Louis to Alton, Illinois, Lovejoy was shot during the night by an anti_abolitionist mob while defending his presses.
1847 Birth of Will L. Thompson, American songwriter. With a major interest in sacred music, Thompson's pen has left the Church two enduring hymns: "Jesus is All the World to Me" and "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling."
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Red the world's richest cat
From: Agence France-Presse
November 05, 2005
A LIFELONG bachelor who amassed a fortune by living simply left all his money to his cat after his death, The Ottawa Citizen has reported.
Canadian David Harper, the shy and somewhat reclusive owner of Red the cat, died in March at the age of 79, but left an estate worth $A1.5 million to his beloved tabby.
The United Church of Canada would administer the funds, in accordance with Harper's will, and be responsible for the three-year-old cat's care, feeding and veterinarian bills for the rest of its life, the newspaper reported.
Thought for the day :
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
Albert Camus
