[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 06:
1661 Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
1671 Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1771 Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography)
1814 Adolphe Sax Belgium, musician/inventor (saxophone)
1832 Joseph Smith son of founder of Mormonism
1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1851 Charles H Dow co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
1854 John Phillip Sousa Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)
1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot
1861 James A Naismith inventor (basketball)
1887 Walter Johnson Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1896 Jim Jordan radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1900 Heinrich Himmler Nazi SS leader
1916 Ray Conniff Massachusetts, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1921 James Jones Robinson IL, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1923 Robert P Griffin actor (Barricade, Broken Arrow, Crime of Passion)
1931 Mike Nichols stage/film director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1933 Knut Johannesen Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Michael Schwerner civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1945 DollyCali Cat lover, Blond...Well what can you say? I mean these things happen even in the best of families. Not that there's anything wrong with being a cat lover, some of my best friends are cat lovers. Of course they have a tendency to have long talks with themselves and twich a lot, not that I'm saying that DollyCali does these things....I'm just saying some cat lovers do. I'm sure to see her walking down the street she....appears to be perfectly normal. However late at night when no ones watching.....weeeell I don't think we want to look any deeper into this as what we'd find is.....unusual
"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip."
1947 Jack Arnold character on Wonder Years
1948 Glenn Frey Detroit, rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1955 Maria Shriver [Mrs A Schwartenegger], Chicago IL, newscaster (Sunday Today)
1962 Lori Singer Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1967 Jana McCoy Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1970 Ethan Hawke Austin, TX, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)

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Deaths which occurred on November 06:
1406 Innocent VII, [Cosma de' Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1632 King Gustavus Aldophus of Sweden, dies in battle
1839 Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1944 Hannah Senesh Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1978 Flora Campbell actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1987 Ross R Barnett lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 William C Pahlmann interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1991 Gene Tierney actress, dies at 70 of emphysema

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
06-Nov-2003 5 | US: 3 | UK: 1 | Other: 1
POL Major Hieronim Kupczyk Al Mussayib (near) Hostile - hostile fire
UK Private Ryan Lloyd Thomas Basra - Basrah Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Specialist James R. Wolf Mosul (near) - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Paul F. Fisher Homburg Hospital Hostile - helicopter crash (missile attack)
US Specialist James A. Chance III Husaybah (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - mine

06-Nov-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private Justin R. Yoemans Baghdad (31st CS Hospital) Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb



Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY


http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
1429 Henry VI is crowned King of England.
1528 Cabeza de Vaca discovers what would become Texas
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation Cassiopeia
1812 The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use

1860 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President

1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1865 CSS Shenandoah strikes its flag at Liverpool, England; the final act of the Confederate States of America
1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Indiana) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1891 Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas
1900 President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1917 NY allowed women to vote. (And it only took 116 years)

1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace

1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed

1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane fighterplane
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
1941 SS Einsatzgruppens kill some 18 thousand Jews of Rovno, Ukraine
1942 Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier took place on the USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touched down
1956 Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
1956 President Eisenhower (D) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (R)
1957 Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-MA) PARRRTY!!!
1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1967 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1969 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore & Denny McLain, Detroit)
1973 Abe Beame elected 1st jewish mayor on NYC
1973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1975 1st appearance of the Sex Pistols
1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1977 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1984 President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) (Dems declare no mandate)
(Note: Mondale won Mn. by about 3,000 votes. If 1 voter in each precinct had changed their vote Reagan would've won all 50 states)
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 Exploratory well at Ranger TX, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1985 General Jaruzelski "elected" Poland's head of state
1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill (glad that problem was solved)
1988 Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1989 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1993 Next transit of Mercury
1995 Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Baltimore
2002 The U.N. Security Council began considering the revised U.S. draft resolution that would declare Iraq in continuing "material breach" of previous measures and warn Baghdad of "serious consequences" if it fails to cooperate with weapons inspectors.
2003 Pres. Bush signed the $87.5 billion spending bill for Afghanistan and Iraq

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Mauritius : Ganga Asnam
Denmark : Esbjerg Cup-World's largest ice skating championship
World : International Cat Week Begins
World : Temperance Sunday (I'll drink to that!)
US : Notary Public Week Begins
US : Hug A Bear Sunday
US : Saxophone Day
Arbor Day (Samoa).
British Appreciation Month
National Accordion Month!

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Religious Observances
Anglican : St Illtyd & Leonard's Day (abbot)
Ang, RC : Commemoration of St Leonard, hermit

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Religious History
1777 Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.'
1789 Following the American Revolution, Father John Carroll, 54, was appointed the first Roman Catholic bishop in the newly organized and independent United States of America.
1853 The first Chinese Presbyterian Church in the U.S. was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1953 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Our prayers are really His prayers; He speaks to himself through us.'
1977 In Toccoa Falls, GA, the Barnes Lake Dam burst, following heavy rains, and the resulting flood destroyed the (Christian and Missionary Alliance) campus of Toccoa Falls Bible Institute. Thirty_eight students and instructors were also killed in the tragedy.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Okla. High School Hoops Team Loses 112-2

Nov 5, 6:21 PM (ET)


EARLSBORO, Okla. (AP) - The Hanna High School basketball team can take some consolation: It didn't get shut out.
It did, however, lose 112-2 on Friday night to Earlsboro.

"It was embarrassing to watch," Earlsboro coach Jim Walling told The Oklahoman. "But you can't just tell your kids not to score. I've been coaching 27 years and have never been involved in something like this."

The Wildcats led 42-0 after one quarter and 73-2 at halftime. Walling pulled his starters in the second half, and game officials kept a running clock, stopping it only for free throws.

Each player on Earlsboro's 10-man boys' roster scored. Seven players finished in double figures

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Thought for the day :
"Some people, they just don't get a joke."
Glenn Frey

[The Mayor]

November 6, 2005

New Neighbors

Read:
Luke 10:29-37

Who is my neighbor? —Luke 10:29

Bible In One Year: John 7-10

On December 26, 2004, masses of people suddenly became our new neighbors. They were left with broken lives after a monstrous tsunami swept across 12 Asian countries, killing tens of thousands of their friends, relatives, and countrymen. Millions of survivors became destitute. But how did they become our neighbors?

According to Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10, a neighbor is one who shows mercy on the needy. A lawyer had asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" (v.29). Jesus told him about an injured traveler who had been attacked by thieves, ignored by a priest and a Levite, and helped by a Samaritan. Then He asked, "Which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?" The lawyer answered correctly, "He who showed mercy on him" (vv.36-37).

Needy people who cross our path become our new neighbors, and we must be a neighbor by helping them. Too often we think of neighbors as related to us by geography. Instead, Jesus indicated that we are to consider anyone in need as a neighbor regardless of who they are or where they live.

Look around. Someone needs your help, mercy, and love. They are your new neighbors. —Dave Branon

Reach out in Jesus' name
With helping hands of care
To those who are in need
And caught in life's despair. —Sper

Good exercise for the heart: Reach out and help your neighbor.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
How Do I Live The Christian Life?

[Valin]

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)

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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

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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
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Thought for the day :
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
Albert Camus