On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 08:
1626 Christina, queen of Sweden daughter of Gustavus Adolphus
1656 Sir Edmond Halley 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)
1817 Claudius Wistar Sears Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1830 Oliver Otis Howard Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1847 Bram Stoker, author (Dracula).
1883 Sir Arnold Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth)
1896 Bucky Harris baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1900 Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind)
1914 Norman Lloyd Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1922 Christiaan Barnard South Africa, surgeon (performs 1st heart transplant)
1922 Esther Rolle Pompano Beach FL, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 Patti Page Claremont Oklahoma, singer (Tennessee Waltz)
1931 Morley Safer Toronto Canada, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1935 Alain Delon France, actor (Honor Among Thieves)
1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1942 Angel Cordero Jr jockey (won over 6,000 races)
1947 Margaret Rhea Seddon Murfreesboro TN, MD/astro (STS 51D, STS 40)
1947 Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 Dale A Gardner Fairmont MN, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 Bonnie Raitt LA, singer/guitarist (Love Me Like A Man, Angel From Montgomery, Thing Called Love)
1951 Mary Hart Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1961 Leif Garrett Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1967 Kim Dugger Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1968 Parker Posey Baltimore MD, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
Deaths which occurred on November 08:
0397 Martinus van Tours [St Maarten], bishop of Tours, dies
0644 Omar I, 2nd kalif of Islam, murdered
1308 Duns Scotus who coined the word "dunce", dies
1674 John Milton (65), English poet (Paradise Lost), died
1887 John H. "Doc" Holliday, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado
1933 King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52
1968 Wendell Corey actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54
1978 Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1978 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84
1980 John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
1993 Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
1994 Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
08-Nov-2003 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Linda C. Jimenez Walter Reed Medical Ctr. Non-hostile - accidental fall
US Private Kurt R. Frosheiser Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Staff Sergeant Gary L. Collins Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Staff Sergeant Mark D. Vasquez Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
08-Nov-2004 12 | US: 11 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Private Pita Tukutukuwaqa Iskandariyah (N of Camp Dogwood) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Lance Corporal Thomas J. Zapp Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Robert P. Warns II Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Don Allen Clary Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Staff Sergeant Clinton Lee Wisdom Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Staff Sergeant David G. Ries Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Branden P. Ramey Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Shane K. O'Donnell Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Nathaniel T. Hammond Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Bryan L. Freeman Baghdad (eastern part) Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Joshua D. Palmer Fallujah - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident (drowning)
US Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lam Fallujah - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident (drowning)
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0392 Emperor Theodosius declares christian religion, state religion
0618 St Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)
1793 Louvre in Paris, opens
1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts-1st US college founded for women
1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1861 US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 People's Commission gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
1923 Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the "Beer Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator.
1933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad (Ah...I don't think so)
1942 Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Africa
http://www.anarmyatdawn.com/ 1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1950 1st jet-plane battle of Korean War. USAF Lt. Russell J. Brown in an F-80 shoots down a North Korean MiG-15. It lasted about 30 seconds.
http://www.korean-war.com/ussraircombat.html 1954 AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 UN demands USSR leave Hungary (And of course they left)
1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1965 "Days of Our Lives" premiers on TV
1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-MA) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 The Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1967 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John
1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, UT
1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")
1980 Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1983 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1984 Anna Fisher becomes the 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 STS 51-A mission; launch
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in DC to sign the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
1987 11 die as a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service
1988 900 die as earthquake hits China
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to the Persian gulf
1990 Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula (Sounds to me like SOMEONE needs a timeout.)
1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. NAFTA, a trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.
1994 Republicans regain control of US Congress
1996 Three days after his re-election, President Clinton said at a news conference that there always are "a lot of hard feelings" after elections, but he urged Republicans to put aside politically charged investigations and work with him to balance the budget and enact campaign finance reform.
2001 A top aide said President Bush had "no plans" to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the U.N. General Assembly in New York because in the American view Arafat has not done enough to stop the violence in Israel and the West Bank.
2004 A new polyester mesh stocking pulled over a weak heart was effective in reducing heart failure used for the 1st time
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Montana : Admission Day (1889)
World : World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace) (Friday)
US : Notary Public Week Ends
US : Abet and Aid Punster's Day
US : Romances Are Rewarding Day
World : International Cat Week (Day 3)
Dunce Day
Real Jewelry Month
Religious Observances
Christian : St Claude
RC : Commemoration of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs
Christian : Commemoration of St Godfrey, bishop of France,
Religious History
1837 Mt. Holyoke Seminary first opened in Massachusetts. Founded by Mary Lyon, 39, it was the first college in the U.S. established specifically for the education of women.
1889 Birth of Oswald J. Smith, Canadian clergyman. Founder of the People's Church of Toronto, Smith also authored a number of books and composed more than 1,200 hymns, including "The Song of the Soul Set Free."
1904 Emile Combs introduced a bill for the separation of Church and State in France. The bill passed in December 1905, thereby ending the Concordat of 1801 and allowing complete liberty of conscience.
1951 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand.'
1952 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.... When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Woman lives in nest
An Argentinian woman has been living in a nest for a full year.
Roxana Pons, from Mendoza, built her nest, using branches and cushions, in a tree near San Rafael train station.
She told Las Ultimas Noticias: "I followed the instructions of a book called El Cobijo which explains how to build a good nest, I thought it was a fantastic idea.
"I'm not homeless and I have a house that I could live in if I wanted to. I just chose to live in a tree, that's all."
(I COULD say something about Ms. Pons being a birdbrain.....but that would be wrong.....so I won't.....but I could.)
Thought for the day :
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
Golda Meir
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In 1914 Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to sail to Antarctica, and then walk to the South Pole. The expedition went according to plan until ice trapped the ship and eventually crushed its hull. The men made their way by lifeboat to a small island. Promising to come back for them, Shackleton and a small rescue party set out across 800 miles of perilous seas to South Georgia Island.