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Re: FS: ULA Epic Lrg
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FS: ULA Epic Lrg
Hello, wife and I are having a baby in a few weeks and cannot really see any time in the future when I will need this awesome yet specialized pack. Only used it two times and while I love it ther...
Re: updated reviews?
"Do you lose level functions (high,low) when using the software to dial in burn times and intensity?" no, when you dial in the burn times you still get hi and low options. Also if yo...
Re: Minimalist Shoe Question
Good topic. I wore Inov8 Roclite 315's for 3-4 years, 1 pair of MT101's and I currently have a pair of Peregrines and Trail Gloves. In the end the Peregrines have been my favorite. The t...
Re: For backpacking/climbing
Peregrines will be a gradual progression down from your Hardrocks and the Trail Gloves will be drastic. If you decide to go with the Peregrines I would suggest a few super easy walks, dayhikes or ...
Re: Re: Saucony Peregrine
hey John, I mostly run in my peregrines but I have used them for a few day hikes and one overnight 25 mile backpacking trip. Honestly they were great. Nothing earth shattering or whatnot, they j...
Re: Merrel Barefoot?
They are a pretty great shoe, but one that takes a fair amount of time to adapt to. I bought a pair to kick around in and I really enjoy them. Recently I took them out on an easy 5 mile day hike ...
Re: Ultralight Adventure Equipment (ULA) CDT Backpack Review
I have always been a fan of this pack. My wife has used her conduit for years and never had a complaint. A year back I bought one and while I loved it, I ended up selling it due to the short sizi...
Re: Peregrine
Yea in my experience both the Peregrine and the MT101 both taper starting around the pinky toe area. If it was not for that darn seam in the NB I would have better things to say about them. That ...
Re: NB Minimus or ?...
1 vote for the Saucony Peregrine over the MT101. 4mm heel to forefoot drop, more cushioning for long miles, burlier tread for wet/technical terrain and no exposed internal seams to slice your pink...
All Reader Reviews by Jonathan Ryan
Princeton Tec EOS
I have been using the EOS-R for alittle under a year now and have been super happy with it. For some odd reason I find night-time winter trail running "fun" and this is the only headlamp I ...
ULA Circuit
I purchased this pack alittle over a year ago and simply put, this may be one of the best overall trekking packs for hikers with a well dialed kit. While it is alittle much for a weekend trip it is g...
Six Moon Designs Europa
First off I must say that for the vast majority of my trips I strongly prefer a tarp/bivy combo. But for those times when I need a full tent, the Europa has always worked pretty darn well for me. Wh...
Golite Umbrella
3 Months ago my wife and I were walking the Wilderness trail out to our car on a rainy Sunday morning. As we walked down the trail we were approached by a traditional packer wearing a kilt (yes a mal...
Therm-A-Rest Ridgerest
While this is def not a highly coveted drool inducing piece of kit, it is one of those items I never realized how much I depend on. Being 6'4" A torso sized pad is just not enough for me. B...
Arc FlashLight Arc AAA
I am actually pretty surprised that no one has submitted a review for this little beauty. As far as lighting goes I am pretty sure this is the most versatile light sources I own. I have carried it o...
Vargo Triad
As others have stated, this thing is terrible. It has a great look to it that seems to promise functionality but once you go to use it you will find the opposite. Get a Caldera Cone instead!!!!
Inov8 Flyroc 310
As a trail shoe I do not think it gets much better than the Flyroc's. With their forefoot space, amazing trail feel and fast drying mesh they are pretty close to perfect for New England hiking. ...
Backpacking Light STIX (2008)
All in all a great trekking pole. It is durable,light and very stiff. I have taken several dives on them and they have held up very well. My only complaint is that the tip and grip area are not repl...
Mountain Laurel Designs Zip
As other users have stated this is a great pack. For 90% of my hiking this is my goto pack. From DIAD hikes up to several days out this is a great size pack with loads of utility and great functiona...


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The waterline can be seen at Horsetooth Reservoir west of Fort Collins on Monday. Thanks in part to September flooding, Northern Colorado entered this year without drought conditions for the first time in four years.
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For the first time in four years, Northern Colorado is starting a new year completely drought-free.
With snowpack and reservoir levels across the northern part of the state at or above their average levels for the start of January, climatologists say Coloradans can point to one major event as the source of drought relief - the devastating fall floods.
"Our area is completely out of drought and that was largely due to rains that we had in September," said Wendy Ryan, the assistant state climatologist at Colorado State University's Colorado Climate Center. "We also got just a year's worth of ...

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901 Old Griffin Road, Dania, Florida 33004(213 reviews)
Distance from airport: 0.8 miles
*Sales Tax - 6.00%
*Airport Access Fee - 8.00%
Please check in at the desk. You will receive instructions regarding your vehicle, and a shuttle will be waiting to take you to your departure terminal. Shuttles run on demand every 6 to 8 minutes but we do ask for customers to allocate 15 mins.
Airport shuttle service provided on demand, about every 4-5 minutes, 24 hours a day. Shuttle service also provided to the Cruise Port - please see separate listing if you need the cruise option.
Open 24 hours.
FLL Park Safe FLL is conveniently located only 0.8 miles from FLL. They are family owned and operated. After arriving to park 15 minutes before you need to be at the airport FLL Park Safe will transport you for free to FLL and help you with your luggage. The shuttle buses run on demand every 3-5 minutes between FLL Park Safe and Ft. Lauderdale Airport. They pick you up and drop you off at your car to help you avoid any long walks with heavy luggage. Our shuttle will meet you at the Ground Transportation exits between the two terminals.
Breakdowns based on 447 ratingsWRITE A REVIEW
101-120 of 213 Reviews
the personnel were excellent. I have a problem walking and didn't realize that I had to go to the space between bld 3 and 2, for me that is a long distance. the very pleasant driver said I could be pickedup between bld 3 and 4. I will try this the next time to see distance. I had thought pickup was at door in front of luggage pickup. I realize that services are required to use certain areas.. there are also quite a few lots that are substantially cheaper. I have to fly to N.Y. every month/the time there varies and sometimes is over a month long so rate is important to me
always excellent service
This was my first experience with park and ride and the personnel at Park Safe were fantastic. My car was waiting to be driven out of the lot when the shuttle brought me back. Driver, Matthew was very pleasant. I will use them again.
I highly recommend FLL Park Safe. They were courteous, prompt pick up at FLL, and professional. I will definitely use FLL Park Safe in the future.
Excellent service, very courteous staff. I will definitely use this company again and recommend to my friends.
Excellent service!
excellent services Thank you!!!
The shuttle to get me to the airport was 5 minutes. The pick up was not quite as fast because there were a lot of people but still timely and pleasant. Very courteous staff.
Great service. Will use again.
I would definetly use them again!!!The directions were fine but because it was dark,I didn't see the lot right away. Sergio was great & so was Anthony the driver-both polite, & very helpful. The lot was ok but as long as I know my vehicle was secure-I was happy. Sergio called me when he hadn't heard from me-due to a delay in pulling up to the gate-& Anthony was there to get me w/in minutes of getting to the pick up area. This type of service, for what they're doing, was professional & appreciated. They even had my van parked & ready to go.. Thanks Sergio-Anthony-I'm sure I'll see you again!!! Please don't change!!
This was a good spot and everything went well. Would use again,, for sure.
Great, friendly and on time service.
The service was prompt, affordable and convenient. When I returned my car was in great condition (no marks, scratches, etc.) and the van was waiting for me when I departed from the airport. Highly recommend and will definitely utilize their services again.
Would use again
Prompt service. Would definitely park with them again
they were right on the ball with making contact with me ...but unfortunately....there is only one place to go when you get off the plane!!!! so I was delayed in answering the phone call :). and they were very helpful to get me to the right place to be picked up!!! can't wait to use them again and the guy in the office was very nice and helpful at me arrival and return
i paid for covered parking and i thought i would see this, since they parked my car i never saw where they parked my car.. my car was very dirty when i got back a week later with stuff that dripped on it...so i question whether it really was covered.


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Language, culture, philosophy and the art of the narrative came together at UNC for Ph.D. student Francisco Laguna-Correa. A Global Heel student enrolled in the Department of Romance Languages in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, Correa is studying Hispanic studies and 19th-century cultural studies, with a focus on Mexico.
Since arriving at UNC, he has won awards for his fiction writing, including the National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) in 2012 for a book of flash-fiction Finales felices, and the International Poetry Prize "Desiderio Macías Silva" for a "broken novel" Ría Brava/Ría Grande, awarded by the Mexican publishing house Azafran y Cinabrio.
Correa grew up in Mexico City, which he describes as "a metropolis where you can find anything that you can imagine, from surreal bookstores and recondite restaurants to social demonstrations and significant social inequalities." The multilingual author's first language is Spanish, and he has studied Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, English and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
In addition to his wide-ranging language interests, Correa has studied at institutions around the world. He earned two master's degrees in philosophy and social anthropology at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain.
Correa recalled finding out about UNC's Romance languages program while studying in Madrid. "The faculty carries out research that aligns with my intellectual interests," he said. In particular, he wanted to work with Juan Carlos González-Espitia, associate professor of Spanish at UNC.
Correa says that his diverse experience growing up in Mexico City and traveling the world as a student gives him a broad foundation from which to interpret class material. He says he has most enjoyed the seminars "Poïesis in Latin American" taught by González-Espitia and "Indigenous Literatures in Latin America" taught by Emilio del Valle-Escalante, associate professor of Spanish.
Published November 25, 2013.


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Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Needs a Deep Spirituality, Pope Says
Message to Inter-Christian Symposium Under Way in Greece
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VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 3, 2003 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II says a profound spirituality is needed to make progress in the dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox, divided by a millennium-old schism.
The Pope expressed this in a letter sent to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in which he asks that his greetings be relayed to the participants in the Inter-Christian Symposium, being held in Ioannina, Greece, through Sunday.
The Holy Father notes that the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Antonianum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome and the Theology Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessalonica of the Greek Orthodox Church began a series of such symposiums in 1992. The events focus on such themes as prayer and contemplation, monastic spirituality, and the ecclesial dimension of spirituality.
The theme of the 2003 meeting is "The Relation Between Spirituality and Christian Dogma in the East and West," in an effort to study the "contribution that spirituality can offer to doctrine, nourishing its development and a deeper study of it."
"Spirituality," the papal message says, "in influencing the dispositions of the spirit and the heart, creates the proper psychological context to undertake the dialogue in an open and confident way."
"This is particularly important when Catholics and Orthodox address questions and problems that still divide them," the Pope adds.
The Holy Father encourages the effort of the organizers of the meeting, as this type of event "involves the different contexts of ecclesial life, in particular, the academic and formative."
"In this way, that spirit of openness and of listening is promoted which helps so much to make progress in the way which, we hope, will soon lead to full communion," he concludes.


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GMAT Tip of the Week
Posted on on July 17, 2009
When Two Wrongs Make a Right
(This is one of a series of GMAT tips that we offer on our blog.)
If you've ever been a child, you've probably been told on multiple occasions that "two wrongs don't make a right" (that's typically the companion lesson to the rhetorical question "if all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?"). Parents don't anticipate fun activities like bungee jumping and cliff diving with the bridge hypothetical, nor do they account for GMAT Critical Reasoning questions with the wrong/right axiom.
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RENO, Nev. – The Drake University men's basketball team
closes out its five-game road swing on Friday night at Nevada as part of the
Missouri Valley/Mountain West Challenge. Tipoff is scheduled for 9
p.m. CST and will be aired on 1350-AM KRNT.
The Bulldogs travel to Reno, Nev., with a 2-3 record after
going 1-2 at the DirecTV Classic last weekend. The team's two losses came to
tournament champion Cal and perennial NCAA tournament participant Xavier by a
combined seven points. Jordan Clarke led Drake at the DirecTV Classic by recording
three straight double-doubles to earn all-tournament honors. He also set
DirecTV Classic records for total rebounds (39) and rebounds in a game (18).
"As a team, we're getting better and making improvements,"
head coach Mark Phelps said. "There have been short stretches in game where we
haven't executed and haven't demonstrated the toughness that we typically do
and that has been our undoing, especially in the games against Cal and Xavier."
Nevada is 4-2 on the season and a perfect 4-0 at home after
defeating UC Davis, 84-83, on a last-second shot from Deonte Burton. Burton
scored 26 points in the win and leads the team with 19.0 points per game. The
Wolf Pack won 28 games last season and claimed the Western Athletic Conference
regular season title to advance to the NIT before moving to the Mountain West Conference this season.
"Nevada is very talented and they have a one-two punch
similar to Cal in Deonte Burton and Malik Story," Phelps said. "They're on the
perimeter with one at the point and one on the wing and they score a lot. At
home, they've been terrific, so going to Reno will be a challenge for us."
Friday's game will feature two-high scoring offenses as Drake
averages 78.4 points per game while the Wolf Pack has scored at a 76.7 points
per game clip. Ben Simons leads that Bulldog offense in scoring with 17.4
points per game and a pair of 20-point performances already under his belt this
Drake and Nevada have met three previous times, but not
since 1969. Drake leads the series by a 3-0 margin and last visited Reno on
Dec. 21, 1968.
Following Friday's game, Drake returns home to host
perennial NCAA participant St. Mary's on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at the Knapp Center.
Tipoff against the Gaels is set for 7:05 p.m.


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Technomad Amps Up Its AmpTechnomad announced it has added more power to its range of PowerChiton weatherproof amplifier modules. 6/09/2010 12:15 AM Eastern
Technomad Amps Up Its Amp
Technomad announced it has added more power to its range of PowerChiton weatherproof amplifier modules.
Technomad announced it has added more power to its range of PowerChiton weatherproof amplifier modules. According to the company, the new PowerChiton4 is able to produce 1,600 watts for 8-ohm systems and 1,800 watts for 4-ohm systems, and offers more than three times the power of Technomad's current highest-power model within the same compact, NEMA-enclosed package.
The PowerChiton's IP66 protection classification confirms ingress protection for persons, such as electrical safety, and equipment, such as dust, dirt, and water. The latter makes PowerChiton amplifiers well-suited for outdoor installations. Its low-profile, modular design also gives systems designers and integrators the flexibility to place the amplifiers closer to the loudspeaker, including wall- and pole-mount systems, without little hassle, or to install the modules to the back of the loudspeaker, says the company.
"We developed the PowerChiton4 in response to requests to offer a weatherproof amplifier solution for high-power applications, especially those covering large areas," said Rodger von Kries, vice president of Technomad, in a statement. "This could include anything from large stadiums to campus-wide public address and emergency announcement systems. The Ethernet/audio-over-IP-networking capabilities of the PowerChiton4 add benefits for large-area installations that are establishing zone control and tying multiple audio points to a centralized infrastructure."
All four PowerChiton amplifiers, including the 130- and 250-watt modules, are available with three networking options: Ethernet/IP, RF, and twisted-pair. Their design employs a single passive radiator for amplifier cooling and removes moving parts to minimize failure points.
Other features include a broadcast-quality balanced line input for improved site-wide audio that works for both voice and musical output. A second input can be used for local audio or as a secondary audio source. An internal mixer balances, improves, and maintains audio levels out of the amplifier modules en route to loudspeakers.
The PowerChiton4 is scheduled to begin shipping in July.
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text: RawDawg October 18, 2011 2:04 AM @pcxmac"there is no rule that says a twin cant pump as much air as a four-banger especially if the twin has larger capacity."I said a twin of the same capacity can't pump as much."You also dont seem to get that the Ducati can produce more power at lower frequencies making it inherently faster in low rpm situations"Where did I state anything that contradicts that? I clearly stated earlier that 4's make their power and torque higher in rev range.I wasn't trying to give an engineering class! So no need to talk about connecting rods, frequency, compression ratio, etc - not that I'm the guy to be giving any lessons! Just giving some basics!


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Nearly every day, on my way to the office, I drive past the shuttered Sacred Heart High School on East Avenue in Vineland. And every day the sight of it saddens me more.
Ive had a fair share of failures in my life, but none has impacted me quite like my failure to lead my alma mater through and past the financial crisis that first threatened, then closed the beloved school. So many good people had stepped forward in support, so many thousands of dollars paid now and pledged forward, so much energy and so much hope, and all went for naught.
It is often said that success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, but I cant orphan this failure because, in large measure, having served as the chair of the ridiculously named Board of Limited Jurisdiction, the failure is mine. That very title perhaps should have been a red flag from day one of our effort, since the limitations placed on our jurisdiction as a board would prove to have a significant impact on what we could and couldnt do.
As one particularly ludicrous example, one of the finalists we had chosen in our search for a Head of School was deemed by the good folks in Camden to be not a good enough Catholic. He is a Catholic in good standing, you understand, just not a good enough Catholic, whatever that meant. Heck, Im not a good enough Catholic for that matter, not even by my own judgment, but nobody jumped up and said, Sorry, youre not a good enough Catholic to participate in this fundraising. Most days I wish they had.
But I cant stop thinking about what else I might have done, what I missed, what more time and effort I might have found to make a difference, what potential creativity I left on the table. So many good people were involved in the effort, so much valuable time and energy volunteered selflessly, and all for such a great cause. Yet we failed. I failed. And Catholicism failed. And every day I drive past that shuttered school, Im again enveloped in the sadness and the breadth of my failure.
Perhaps I should have kicked harder against the pricks, as George Bernard Shaw so eloquently put it. Perhaps I should have demanded that the same guy who runs St. Josephs High School in Hammonton have nothing whatever to do with diocesan policy concerning Sacred Heart, at least that he cease and desist from recruiting Bishop Schad grammar school eighth-graders for St. Joes while Sacred Heart was still in operation.
Perhaps I should have immediately fired the hapless administrative staff we inherited, rather than allow them to hang around for the balance of that penultimate school year. Perhaps I should have planted myself at the new bishops doorstep, refusing to leave until hed meet personally and explain why the Diocese of Camden denies support of Catholic education in favor of throwing money into the economic abyss that is the city of Camden. Perhaps I should have returned his eminences after-the-fact, back-of-the-hand letter, unopened.
Im sad that I failed the alumni, prominent among them the Venerable Redhead, my mother, president of the inaugural graduating class at Sacred Heart in 1931. But Im more regretful by miles for the loss of affordable Catholic education in Cumberland County. And Im devastated by the realization that untold thousands of young people will never have the opportunity to become a part of that unique experience that is the Sacred Heart family.
So many people tried so hard. Prominent among them were Chalky Ottinger, Msgr. John Burton, Mark Ronchetti, Keith Jones, and an office staff whose dedication to the school was astounding, right up until the very end. Nevertheless, that very end became the inevitable.
Hopefully, the spirit that is Sacred Heart High School will imbue whoever eventually occupies the buildings, and educational value will return. But for me, the awful sense of personal failure will never go away. This failure is no orphan.
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More Trivia for November
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine
Chapel in Vatican, Italy were first exhibited. He started
the work in 1508.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "The Tragedy
of Othello, the Moor of Venice " was first presented.
1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest"
was first presented
1755 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Lisbon, Portugal -
an estimated 10,000-100,000 people were killed
1775 (Earthquake) Kashan, Iran -estimated 40,000 killed
1834 - First published reference to poker (as a Mississippi
riverboat game) Originally 20 cards were used, and the
52 card deck appeared before 1850.
1867 - "Harper's Bazaar" issue #1 was published.
It was America's first fashion-oriented magazine.
1879 - Thomas Edison signed the patent application
for his electric lamp (approved on January 27 1880 Patent
1884 - Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted universally
at a meeting of the International Meridian Conference
in Washington, DC.
1896 - Zulu groom and bride (a bare-breasted woman)
appeared in National Geographic Magazine. The magazine
began publication in October of 1888.
1924 - First US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins was founded.
The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs were
the first to form and addition of the Chicago Blackhawks,
Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers made the Original
Six teams.
1945 - First issue of Ebony magazine published by John
H Johnson. The first magazine he started was 'The Negro
Digest' (later called Black World) in 1942.
1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson. In 1996,
President Bill Clinton bestowed the Presidential Medal
of Freedom on Johnson.
1967 - "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman,
George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, was released. "What
we've got here is failure to communicate."
1977 - Chiron, the farthest known asteroid was discovered
by Charles Kowal. Chiron is named after the wisest of
the Centaurs of Greek mythology.
1979 - Federal (US) government made a $1.5 billion
loan guarantee for Chrysler. The government basically
'cosigned' a loan to keep the company in business.
1981 - First Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to
20 cents. Prior to the use of stamps, postage was paid
for by the reciever, not the sender.
1996- The original cartoon series of Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles aired its final episode. Kevin Eastman
and Peter Laird invented the TMNT in 1984 in comic book
2012 - Google's Gmail became the world's most popular
email (Electronic mail) service. Microsoft's hotmail
was the leader before that. Yet Yahoo actually has the
most registered users, it is/was not used as much as
the others.
More Trivia for November
1898 - Cheerleading was started at the University of
Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in
cheering on the football team with "Rah, Rah, Rah!
Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity,
Minn-e-So-Tah!" Princeton had published cheers
for the audience to chant as early as 1877. In 1903
the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was
founded. Women started being popular cheerleaders in
the early 1920s.
1936 - First high-definition TV broadcast service,
by BBC in London. At the time "standard definition"
was 30 horizontal lines making up the picture, and the
'36 BBC hi-def had 240 lines. Today, 720 is considered
the minimum for HD.
1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established.
1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas,
generated national publicity. Officially, they called
it 'blue lightning'.
1983 - President Reagan signed the bill establishing
the Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, held on the third
Monday in January.
1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed
computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention,
was launched from MIT. It was written by a student at
Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris. His intention
was to gauge the 'size' of the intenet.
2000 - The first crew arrived at the International
Space Station. The assembly of the IISS began in November
2003 - Arrested Development debuted on FOX. Despite
acclaim from critics, Arrested Development received
low ratings and the series was cancelled in 2006.
More Trivia for November
1863 - US patent for an antifouling paint for ships'
hulls was issued to J.G. Tarr and A.H. Wonson (# 40515)
for a copper oxide, tar and naptha mixture. It helped
keep ships free from barnacles growing on the hull.
1868 - First black US Congressman was elected (Republican
John Willis Menard, Louisiana)
1906 - International Radio Telecommunications Com adopted
"SOS" - international Morse code distress
signal (· · · – – – · ·
·) - as the new call for help.
1913 - The USA introduced a permanant income tax, although
the US federal government imposed the first, although
temporary, personal income tax, on August 5, 1861, to
help finance the Civil War.
1930 - Bank of Italy became the Bank of America National
Trust and Savings Association, now known as the Bank
of America.
1952 - Clarence Birdseye marketed frozen peas. He had
started freezing fresh fish in the 1920s.
1955 - Carlton Schwerdt and F.L. Schaffer crystallized
the polio virus. Their research laid the groundwork
for the polio vaccine.
1947 - Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane,
the Spruce Goose on its only flight, which lasted about
a minute, over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1956 - The Wizard of Oz was shown on television for
the first time, on CBS. Although a moderate success
when released theatrically in 1939, it is now recognized
as the most watched film in television history.
1957 - Sputnik 2 was launched, with the first live
animal sent into space, a Siberian husky dog named Laika
('barker' in Russian).
1975 - Good Morning America premiered on ABC (David
Hartman & Nancy Dussault). The initial show was
called AM America, which started on January 6, 1975.
1978 - First broadcast of "Diff'rent Strokes"
on NBC. The series starred Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges
as Arnold and Willis Jackson. Dana Plato performed as
Kimberly Drummond.
1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) started on cable
TV. The channel evolved to Spike TV in 2003.
1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose was broken
as Roy Innis brawled with skinheads at a TV taping.
He did not press charges, claiming that he did not wish
to be "tied up with the roaches" and also
said that "if there ever was a case of deserved
violence, this was it."
2000 - William Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko
entered the ISS (International Space Station)
More Trivia for November
1667 (Earthquake) Shamakhi (now Azerbaijan) estimated
80,000 people killed.
1841 - First wagon train arrived in California. They
left Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841.
1846 - The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for an artificial
leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New
1873 - A patent (#144,182)for a gold crown was issued
to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on
"artificial crowns for teeth".
1879 - James Jacob Ritty and his brother John invented
the first cash register, to stop the stealing by his
bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant saloon in Dayton,
1904 - First stadium built specifically for football
opened (Harvard Stadium). Officially, when referring
to more than one stadium, they should be called 'stadia.'
But 'stadiums' works too.
1914 - Vogue held the first model show ("Fashion
Fete" in New York City), although individual American
stores had shown models wearing the latest fashions
since the early 1900s.
1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was
discovered in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings, by
English archaeologist Howard Carter.
1939 - First air conditioned automobile (Packard) was
exhibited, Chicago, Ill. The A/C option was available
for $274 until 1941. WW II stopped production of many
luxury items. It wasn't until 1953 that air conditioning
was commercially available in cars again.
1948 - TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature
"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day
1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seized the
US embassy, took 90 hostages (444 days) in the "Iran
hostage crisis"
1979 - Blockbuster film 'Jaws' was shown on TV for
the first time, on ABC. Originally released in 1975,
it was the first modern day "blockbuster."
When released, critic Roger Ebert called it "a
sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller
that works all the better because it's populated with
characters that have been developed into human beings".
1981 - The Fall Guy premiered on ABC. It starred Lee
Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas.
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1530 - St. Felix's Flood, Netherlands
1605 - Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up English Parliament.
Plot discovered and leader Guy Fawkes was tortured and
later executed. He was caught with 36 barrels of gunpowder
at the House of Lords.
1639 - First post office in the colonies was set up
in Massachusetts, with permission from King William
and Queen Mary. The United States Post Office (USPO)
was created on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second
Continental Congress.
1781 - John Hanson was elected first "President
of US in Congress assembled." The other short-term
presidents before George Washington was inaugurated
on April 30, 1789, were Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin,
Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, Nathaniel Gorham, Arthur
St. Clair and Cyrus Griffin.
1852 - American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects
was founded.
1895 - Patent attorney George B. Selden of Rochester,
New York, received the first US patent (#549,160) for
a gasoline-driven automobile.
1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) struck
down Lousiville, Kenticky, ordinance requiring blacks
& whites to live in separate areas. The USSC held
that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting
the sale of real property to blacks violated the Fourteenth
1935 - Parker Brothers launched the board game of Monopoly.
Marvin Gardens is actually a mispelling of 'Marven Gardens',
an actual locale in Atlantic City.
1956 - The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. It was
the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American.
The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show aired December
17, 1957.
1959 - American Football League (AFL) was announced,
with 8 teams - The New York Titans, Boston Patriots,
Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers,
Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, and Dallas Texans.
1966 - Patrick Troughton appeared as The Doctor in
'The Power of the Daleks' as the Second Doctor. He had
a fleeting appearance in the prior week's episode -
which, as of today, no known copies exist, although
there is a full-length animated reconstruction of its
missing episode.
2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical
Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas
in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
Although it has been officially labeled as 'work place
violence,' many people consider it an act of terrorism.
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1572 - A supernova was observed in constellation known
as Cassiopeia. Queen Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus,
King of Aethiopia and mother of Princess Andromeda in
Greek mythology.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as
the first Catholic bishop in the United States. He is
also known as the founder of Georgetown University.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill) elected 16th American
President. His election prompted seven southern slave
states to form the Confederacy before he took the office.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected to 6 year term as
Confederate president. After the war was over, Davis
was captured and he was accused of treason but was not
tried and was released after two years.
1862 - The direct telegraphic link between New York
and San Francisco was established.
1869 - First intercollegiate football (soccer) game
(Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). There were two games that
season, and each team won one game. At that time, American
Football was closer to the game of rugby.
1947 - Meet the Press was first televised as a local
program in Washington DC. Meet the Press began on radio
in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press.
1975 - First appearance of the Sex Pistols in the UK
1990 - Arsenio Hall earned his star on Hollywood's
Walk of Fame. Joanne Woodward, Olive Borden, Ronald
Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster,
Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence were the first
to get stars.
2001 - 24 premiered on FOX - Starring Kiefer Sutherland
as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer.
2012 - US territory Puerto Rico voted to become a US
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1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite
with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon
in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace,
1665 - First edition of "London Gazette"
was printed. At the time it was called "The Oxford
1874 - First cartoon depicting the elephant as Republican
Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also know as being
the first to draw our modern version of Santa Clause.
1876 - The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette
manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New
York City.
1885 -T he Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, was completed.
1908 - Professor Ernest Rutherford announced in London
that he had isolated a single atom of matter.
1913 - Great Lakes Storm of 1913 lasted until November
10th. It killed over 250 people and was concentrated
around Lake Huron.
1932 - First broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the
25th century" on CBS-radio. The Buck Rogers comic
strip made its first newspaper appearance on January
7, 1929.
1975 - The 'New Original Wonder Woman' TV movie aired
as a 'test' pilot for the series, Wonder Woman on ABC,
starred Lynda Carter. It had very little in common with
the 1974 TV movie entitled Wonder Woman starring Cathy
Lee Crosby,
1976 - "Gone With the Wind" was televised
for the first time. Gone with the Wind was originally
a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published
in 1936. The film was released in 1939.
2003 - Star Wars: Clone Wars debuted on The Cartoon
Network. In addition to the feature films, this series
is also generally considered 'canon' - which means it
officially happened in the Star Wars universe.
2006 - At O'Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting
Near Gate C-17 twelve employees reported seeing a metallic
saucer shaped craft hovering over the airport. The FAA
stance concluded that the sighting was caused by a weather
phenomenon and that the agency would not be investigating
the incident, which many think is odd in the post-2001
security-enhanced world of airport security.
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392 - Roman Emperor Theodosius declared the Christian
religion the official state religion. He also dissolved
the order of the Vestal Virgins in Rome, which had been
in place for almost 400 years.
1519 - First meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán
Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Little is known
about him, except that was the the leader of the Aztecs
and was killed in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. "Montezuma's
Revenge' is named after him.
1601 -The Bodleian Library was established in Oxford,
1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin (with members
of his Junto Club) opened the first US library. Plans
had begun in earnest in July, and Ben retired as the
Librarian in 1734.
1789 - Bourbon Whiskey was first distilled from corn
(by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky). That's what his namesake's
website says. (http://heavenhill.com/)
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen observed X-rays for the
first time during an experiment at Würzburg University,
Germany. It earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1901, and element 111, roentgenium, was named after
1904 - U.S. patent (#774,250) for a separable electric
attachment plug was issued to inventor and manufacturer
Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is essentially
the plug we use today.
1910 - The first US patent (#974,785) for an "electric
insect destroyer" (Bug Zapper) was issued to William
H. Frost of Spokane, Washington.
1965 - Days of our Lives premiered on NBC. The original
title sequence voiced by MacDonald Carey is still used.
1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected Governer of California.
His career path also included lifeguard, actor, cheerleader
and US President.
1972 - Home Box Office (HBO) was launched, in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. The first broadcast was a 1971 film, Sometimes
a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
1979 - Nightline Premiered on ABC. Frank Reynolds was
the original presenter, Ted Koppel too over shortly
after the program began.
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovered the 15th moon
of Saturn. We've counted 62 moons and dozens of moonlets
around the planet to date.
1995 - General Hospital character Stone Cates died
of AIDS on the show, right after he was informed that
he had infected his lover Robin Scorpio with HIV.
2001 - The Tick premiered on FOX. Creator Ben Edlund
published his first Tick comic book in 1988.
2010 - Conan debuted on TBS
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1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte became dictator (first consul)
of France.
1842 - The first U.S. design patent (Design Patent
# D1) was issued for typefaces and borders patented
by George Bruce of New York City.
1888 - Jack Ripper's 5th, and probably last victim,
Mary Jane Kelly, was found on her bed. His first four
victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth
Stride, and Catherine Eddowes.
1925 - Robert A. Millikan confirmed the existence of
cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National
Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin. He also helped
find the charge in an electron, which is a key part
of the constants in physics.
1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil'l Abner creates Sadie
Hawkins Day. It was now "celebrated" on the
first Saturday after November 9th.
1953 - Supreme Court ruled Major League baseball exempt
from anti-trust laws. Basically, it was a mechanism
to make sure a player could not just quit one team to
work for another team.
1957 - Gordon Gould began writing his description of
a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation).
1961 - The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record
speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet
(over 19 miles) altitude, piloted by US Air Force Major
Robert M. White.
1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were
hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours
in the 'Northeast Blackout of 1965.'
1989 - The Berlin Wall fell. It was constructed by
the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting
on August 13, 1961.
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium (#110) was
discovered/created in Germany. It was named in honor
of the city of Darmstadt, where it was discovered.
1997 - In the 'Montreal Screwjob,' wrestler Bret Hart
lost his final match in the WWF via submission to Shawn
2011 - At 2:00 PM EST, all US TV and radio stations
in the Emergency Alert System were tested simultaneously,
the first nationwide test of the system since the 1997
inception of the EAS.
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1871 - Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa,
encountered David Livingstone with the immortal words:
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
1885 - The world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb
Daimler, made its first announced test-run.
1908 - The first Gideon Bible put in hotel rooms at
the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana.
1919 - The American Legion's first national convention
(Minneapolis). The American Legion is an organization
of U.S. war veterans that formed in Paris on March 15-17,
1951 - The first direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone
service in North America began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning
of Englewood, NJ called Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda,
1974 - The discovery of the "charmed quark"
subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by an
MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a SLAC-Berkeley
group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator
1977 - The Incredible Hulk (made for TV movie) was
shown on CBS. Bill Bixby starred as David Banner, but
the comics referred to the character as Bruce Banner.
1999 - Sesame Street celebrated its 30th anniversary.
The series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.
2001 - Fox Family Channel became ABC Family on Cable
2010 - Disney composer Alan Menken received the 2,442nd
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1790 - Chrysanthemums were introduced to England from
China by M. Cels (France).
1851 - The first U.S. patent (Patent #8,509) for a
telescope design was issued to Alvan Clark of Cambridge,
1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes
into ending WW I.
1921 - President Harding dedicated the Tomb of Unknown
Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. It is also known as The
Tomb of the Unknowns.
1926 - U.S. Route 66 was established. It has also been
called The Will Rogers Highway.
1935 -A record 72,395 feet was reached by Lt. Col.
Albert William Stevens and Captain Orvil Anderson, by
helium balloon in a sealed gondola, Explorer II.
1938 - Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) died. Fifty-one original
cases of typhoid and three deaths were directly attributed
to her, although she was immune to the typhoid bacillus
(Salmonella typhi).
1939 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God
Bless America" on her radio show. Irving Berlin
had originally written it in 1918.
1966 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren
Church joined together as the United Methodist Church
1972 - Dow Jones Index moved above 1,000 for first
time. It closed under 1,000 though.
1994 - Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex
Leicester" for $30,800,000. It was an insightful
overview on Leonardo's thoughts on a variety of topics.
It was also the most expensive book or manuscript of
all time.
1980 - Too Close for Comfort premiered on ABC. It was
modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family'.
1982 - Star 80 was released in US theaters.
1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sold for record
53.9 million dollars at auction via Sotheby's, New York
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1799 - Andrew Ellicott wrote the about first known record
of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know there
were the Leonids.
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, the father of modern
anesthetics, used chloroform ("perchloride of formyle")
for the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.
1892 - William "Pudge" Walter Heffelfinger
was the first professional (paid) US Football player.
He got $25 and a $500 bonus for a single game.
1922 (Volcano Eruption & Tsunami) Chile/Argentina
- over 1,000 people were killed.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel connecting NY and NY - the
world's first underwater vehicular tunnel - officially
1929 - Commander Richard E. Byrd made the first flight
over the South Pole.
1933 - First known photo of so-called Loch Ness Monster
was taken
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard. It killed nearly 150
people and stretched from Kansas to Michigan.
1946 - The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois,
instituted the first drive in banking service in America
1952 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Kamchatka.
1954 - Ellis Island in New York closed after providing
entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between
1892 and 1924.
1956 - The largest iceberg on record was sighted by
the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150
miles west of Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere.
It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic.
It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide
1966 - The first photograph was taken from Earth's
atmosphere by the satellite Gemini XII.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy
a beached eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon
with half a ton of dynamite. It mainly made a bigger
1981 - First balloon crossing of Pacific was completed.
The Double Eagle V launched from Nagashima, Japan on
November 10, 1981
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587,
an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic,
crashed minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International
Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2004 - A jury in Redwood City, California, convicted
Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci,
and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.
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1789 - Ben Franklin wrote "nothing is certain,
but death and taxes" in a letter to Jean Baptiste
Le Roy.
1855 - A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel
was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre,
to connect Boulogne to Dover.
1940 - Walt Disney released Fantasia, an film experience
mixing animation and classical music.
1942 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the
minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1956 - The US Supreme Court ruled that state and local
laws requiring segregated buses are illegal.
1970 (Cyclone) East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killed approximately
500,000 people.
1971 - Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit
another planet, reaching Mars.
1980 - US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back first close-up
pictures of Saturn.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument consisting
of two black granite walls engraved with the names of
58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam,
was dedicated in Washington D.C.
1985 (Volcano Eruption) Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia -
over 23,000 people were killed.
1994 - Sweden agreed to join European Union
1997 - "The Lion King," based on the 1994
Disney animated film, opened at the New Amsterdam Theater
on Broadway.
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1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane) began her attempt to duplicate the literary
journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around
world in less than 80 days. She succeeded, finishing
the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours.
1922 - BBC officially began its daily domestic radio
service broadcasting with the 6:00pm news, read by announcer
Arthur Burrows.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) launched
with a radio network of 24 stations across the USA.
1956 - Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley was released
in US theaters.
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries),
was formed by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
1967 - The patent for "Ruby Laser Systems"
was issued to Theodore Maiman (Patent #3,353,115). His
first ruby laser was tested in 1960.
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day"
featured the burning of draft cards on US college campuses.
1972 - The Dow Jones closed at over 1000 for the first
time, at 1,003.16.
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter issued Executive order
12170, which froze all Iranian assets in the United
States, in response to the hostage crisis.
1986 - FCC issued a Notice Of Apparent Liability to
WYSP in Philadelphia for broadcasting The Howard Stern
Show, with material that the FCC believe contained "indecent"
1991 - Michael Jackson's "Black Or White"
video was aired on FOX (and MTV, BET, VH1) right after
an episode of The Simpsons.
1994 - First trains for the general public ran in Channel
Tunnel (Chunnel) under the English Channel.
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1492 - Christopher Columbus' notes included the first
recorded reference to tobacco.
1660 - First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) was licensed
in New York City (New Amsterdam).
1791 - First Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opened
1806 - First US college magazine, Yale Literary Government,
published its first issue
1894 - First newspaper Sunday color comic section was
published (NY World)
1896 - The first long-distance transmission of hydroelectricity
from the Niagara Falls Power Company flowed to Buffalo,
N.Y., 26 miles away.
1904 - King Camp Gillette was issued a US patent (#775,134)
for his invention of a safety razor using disposable
1956 - "Li'l Abner" opened at St James Theater
New York City
1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opened in Columbus, Ohio.
1971 - Intel advertised the 4004-processor, the first
1979 - The UnaBomber struck for the first time when
a bomb exploded in the cargo cabin of an American Airlines
727 on its way from Chicago to Washington.
1984 - Baby Fae died, an infant born a month earlier,
but lived for 20 days with a transplanted baboon heart.
1990 - The world discovered that Milli Vanilli, the
hot, new Grammy winning pop duo, were lip synching in
their songs, and resulted in losing the Grammy award
for Best New Artist.
1993- Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina
Aguilera joined the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club.
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1620 - The first corn (maize) was found in North America
by British settlers, including Myles Standish and William
Bradford, in Provincetown, Massachsettes.
1676 - First colonial prison was organized in Nantucket,
Massachusetts. William Bunker was the first warden.
1801 - First edition of New York Evening Post was published.
It is the US' oldest continuously published daily newspaper.
1841 - The first patent (#2,359) for a US life preserver
of cork was issued to Napoleon E. Guerin of New York
City for his "Improvement in Buoyant Dresses or
1910 - The first American driver to exceed the speed
of 'a mile a minute' (60 mph) was of A.C. Bostwick on
the Ocean Parkway Racetrack in Brooklyn, New York.
1907 - Oklahoma became the United States' 46th state.
1938 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized
by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories
in Basel, Switzerland.
1945 - Two new elements were announced in Chicago:
americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number
1959 - "Sound of Music" opened at Lunt Fontanne
Theater New York City, starring Mary Martin and Theodore
1965 - Venera 3 launched, and was the first to land
on another planet (it crashed into Venus).
1965 - Walt Disney launched Epcot Center: Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
1981 - Luke and Laura's wedding for ABC soap opera
General Hospital was one of the most watched weddings
in American television history.
2006 - Great Firewall of China began, giving the Chinese
government much control over what could be seen online
by its citizens.
2012 - 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grossed $500 million
in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch
of all time (so far).
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1827 - The Delta Phi & Sigma Phi fraternities were
founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Along
with Kappa Alpha Society and Sigma Phi Society, the
trio were informally called the 'Union Triad'.
1855 - David Livingstone became the first European
to see Victoria Falls in what was now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opened, linking the Mediterranean
& Red seas. It is 102 miles long.
1871 - National Rifle Association was organized (in
New York City) by Army and Navy Journal editor William
Conant Church and General George Wood Wingate.
1894 - Daily Racing Form was founded in Chicago, Illinois
by Frank Brunell.
1952 - Archeologists reported finding a 2,000-year-old
mosaic floor at Circum, Cyprus, that depicted a scene
from Homer's Iliad.
1968 - "Heidi Game" - NBC cut the AFL championship
to show the children's film "Heidi" and millions
missed the Raiders beat the Jets, 43-32. The movie started
at 7:00 PM. The game ended at 7:07.
1969 - SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) discussions
opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1970 - A patent (#3541541) was issued to Doug Engelbart
for the computer mouse - an "X-Y Position Indicator
for a Display System".
1978 - Star Wars Holiday Special aired on CBS
1992 - Dateline NBC aired a demonstration show General
Motors trucks blowing up on impact, later it was revealed
that NBC rigged test.
2001 - The Justice League premiered on The Cartoon
Network. The initial team included Batman, Superman,
Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), The Flash
(Wally West), Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'ones), and
2004 - Kmart Corp. announced it was buying Sears, Roebuck
and Company for $11 billion USD and naming the newly
merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
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1307 - William Tell shot an apple off his son's head
with an arrow.
1477 - First English dated printed book "Dictes
& Sayengis of the Phylosophers" was published
by William Caxton.
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated. Replaced
the earlier Basilica, which was consecrated on this
same date in 326 AD.
1727 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran - an estimated 77,000
people were killed.
1805 - Thirty women met at Mrs Silas Lee's home in
Wiscasset, Maine, and organized the Female Charitable
Society of Wiscasset, the first woman's club in America.
They actually published a 32 page book upon their centennial.
1872 - The first US patent (#133,188) for an adding
machine capable of printing totals and subtotals, called
a "calculating machine," was issued to E.D.
Barbour of Boston, Massachusetts.
1872 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony was arrested
after voting on the 5th November in Rochester New York.
She was found guilty and never paid the $100 fine.
1874 - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
organized in Cleveland.
1883 - 'Standard Time' in the United States went into
effect at noon for the first time.
1902 - Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom named the teddy
bear he invented after US President Teddy Roosevelt.
He founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in 1907.
1913 - The first airplane in the U.S. to perform a
loop-de-loop was piloted by Lincoln Beachey over North
Island, San Diego, California
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse first appeared in
NY in "Steamboat Willie." It seems that every
time this is brought up, someone points out that Walt
Disney did the original voice, and he did!
1932 - "Flowers & Trees" received the
first Academy Award for a cartoon.
1949 - National League batting leader (.342) Jackie
Robinson won the NL MVP.
1962 - 'Ma' Bell Telephone introduced the push button
1963 - The Touch-Tone telephone with 10 push buttons,
manufactured by the Western Electric Manufacturing of
the Bell System, was released commercially.
1970 - Linus Pauling declared that large doses of Vitamin
C could ward off the common cold.
1978 - In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of Peoples
Temple were murdered and/or committed suicide under
leadership of cult leader Jim Jones. The bodies of over
400 of those who died are buried in a mass-grave at
Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California.
1982 - Yentl, Amityville 3-d and A Christmas Story
were released in US theaters.
1985 - Sesame Street's Elmo was introduced. He was
usually puppeteered by Kevin Clash. After Clash's controversial
resignation in late 2012, he has been puppeteered by
Ryan Dillon.
1992- The Seinfeld episode titled "The Contest"
was broadcast. It was a controversial episode which
later won an Emmy and was named the number one episode
of all time by TV Guide magazine.
1993 - WWF boss Vince McMahon was charged with steroid
1999 - 12 people were killed and 27 injured at Texas
A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction
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1620 - The Mayflower reached Cape Cod & explored
the coast.
1805 - Lewis & Clark reached Pacific Ocean, they
were the first European Americans to cross the American
1850 - A patent (#7,784) for magic lantern slides made
of glass plate was issued to Frederick Langenheim of
Philadelphia, PA as an "improvement in photographic
pictures on glass."
1850 - A patent (#7,784) for magic lantern slides made
of glass plate was issued to Frederick Langenheim of
Philadelphia, PA as an "improvement in photographic
pictures on glass."
1863 - US President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg
address beginning "Four score & seven years
1911 - NY received the first Marconi wireless transmission
from Italy
1953 - US Supreme Court ruled (7-2) baseball was a
sport not a business
1954 - The first automatic toll collection machine
was used at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden
State Parkway. It only accepted quarters (one was needed).
1955 - National Review published its first issue
1959 - Rocky & Friends premiered on NBC (moved
to ABC and changed to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
in 1964).
1978 - "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" -
Philadelphia Eagles' Herman Edwards returned a fumble
for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia
a 19-17 victory over the New York Giants.
1980 - CBS banned a Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring
Brooke Shields.
2006 - Nintendo released the Wii in the US.
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1866 - US patent (#59,745) for a yoyo, called a "Whirligig"
or "Bandalore" in the paperwork, was issued
to James L. Haven and Charles Hittrick of Cincinnati,
1866 - The US patent (#59,918) on a rotary crank bicycle
was issued to Pierre Lallemont of Paris, France.
1888 - Willard LeGrand Bundy was issued the first U.S.
patent (#393,205) for a time recording clock. His company
went on to help start TCR in 1911, which evolved into
1906 - Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce
formed Rolls-Royce.
1929 - First broadcast of 'The Goldbergs' on NBC radio.
The original title was 'The Rise of the Goldbergs',
until 1936, when it moved to CBS. It was also on television,
in various forms from 1949 to 1956.
1945 - The Nuremburg Trials with an International Military
Tribunal made up of four judges one from each country
United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France begin
when charges against Germany's Nazi leaders.
1959 - WABC fired Alan Freed over the payola scandal.
The early rock and roll DJ died in 1965, and in 2002
his ashes were moved to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in Cleveland, Ohio.
1962 - USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, &
US lifted the blockade.
1969 - Pele scored his 1,000th soccer goal. His career
goals totaled 1281.
1973 - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on CBS for
the first time.
1982 - Drew Barrymore, at age 7, hosted Saturday Night
Live. She was starring in the hit film 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
at that time.
1983 - The made-for-television movie 'The Day After,'
depicting the start of a nuclear war. was shown on ABC.
Over 100 million people saw the broadcast.
1985 - A successful heart transplant to a 4-day-old
infant, Eddie Anguiano, known then as Baby Moses, was
performed by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey of the Loma Linda
University Medical Center. Eddie is still living and
living in Las Vegas as far as we know.
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released
1995- Day time soap opera One Life To Live aired its
7,000th episode on ABC.
1999- John Carpenter became the first world-wide winner
of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The $1 million question
was, "Which of these U.S. Presidents appeared on
the television series 'Laugh-In'?", with the choices
being A) Lyndon Johnson, B) Richard Nixon, C) Jimmy
Carter, and D) Gerald Ford. He knew the answer and used
his lifeline to call his father to tell him that he
was winning a million dollars.
2003 - Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of multiple
counts of child molestation, later acquitted on all
charges. He was on $3 million bond.
2013 - Two campus police officers who pepper-sprayed
peaceful student protesters at a close range at the
University of California were suspended. The memes made
the incident immortal.
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1783 - Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis
Francois Laurant d'Arlandes became the first men to
make a free flight. Their hot-air balloon lifted off
from La Muettte, a royal palace in the Bois de Boulogne,
Paris. Ben Franklin was among the witnesses.
1846 - The word 'anesthesia' was used by Oliver Wendell
Holmes in a letter to William Thomas Green Morton, the
surgeon who gave the first public demonstration of the
pain-killing effects of ether.
1871 - The patent (#121,049) for a cigar lighter was
issued to Moses F. Gale of New York City as an "Improvement
in Cigar-Lighters."
1877 - Thomas Edison announced his "talking machine"
invention. His phonograph originally recorded sound
onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder.
1942 - Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in 'Tale
of Two Kitties.' Bob Clampett created the character.
1952 - First US postage stamp (The Red Cross 3 cent)
in 2 colors (with the rotary printing process) was introduced.
1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum
announced the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of
the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1959 - Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano)
play their famed duet
1964 - World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano
Narrows" opened (New York City - 4,260 feet). It
is still the longest in the western hemisphere.
1980 - Eveyone asked "Who Shot J.R.?" in
last year's Dallas season finale. This week's episode
of Dallas answered the question people were asking all
summer, and well into the fall. Sue Ellen's sister Kristin
(played by Mary Crosby).
1989 - Law banning smoking on most US domestic flights
was signed by President George H. W. Bush.
1995 - Dow Jones closed above 5,000 for first time.
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1809 - The (#1168) patent was issued in the U.S. for
a metallic writing pen was issued to Peregrine Williamson
1910 - The patent (#976,267) for a steel-shafted golf
club was issued to Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady,
1927 - The patent (#1,650,334) for a snowmobile (motor
toboggan) was issued to Carl J.E. Eliason of Saynor,
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, was first
performed publicly (Paris). The original title for the
music was 'Fandango.'
1932 - The patent (#1,888,533) for a computer pump
was issued to the inventors, Robert J. Jauch, Ivan R.
Farnham and Ross H. Arnold for their "Liquid Dispensing
Apparatus". The technology has led us to the modern
gas pump.
1935 - First commercial crossing of Pacific Ocean by
plane (China Clipper). On November 29, the airplane
reached its destination, Manila, after traveling via
Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam, and
delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1941 - The US Food and Drug Administration specified
the first minimum daily requirements for dietary supplements
for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin,
calcium, iron, iodine, and phosphorus.
1954 - Humane Society of the United States formed.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by
Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
1965 - Muhammad Ali TKO'ed Floyd Patterson in 12 rounds
for the heavyweight boxing title.
1968 - William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols shared
the first interracial kiss on US television on CBS'
Star Trek (in episode titled "Plato's Stepchildren").
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest Heavyweight Champion
in history today with a second round knockout win over
Trevor Berbick.
1987 - WGN-TV Channel 9 and PBS affiliate WTTW-TV Channel
11 broadcast signals were hijacked by an unknown person
wearing a Max Headroom mask. The hijacker was never
1995 - Pixar's Toy Story was released. It was the first
feature-length film created completely using computer
generated animation.
2012 - 2 people were killed and 120 injured after a
100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog near Beaumont, Texas,
on interstate 10.
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1874 - A paper by Ferdinand Braun was published in the
Annalen der Physik und Chemie describing his discovery
of the electrical rectifier effect, the first semi-conductor.
1889 - Debut of the first jukebox, the 'nickel-in-the-slot
phonograph', at the Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco.
It could only be loaded with one cylander (song) at
a time.
1897 - The patent (#594,114) for a hand-cranked pencil
sharpener was granted to John Lee Love of Fall River,
1936 - Originally started in 1883, Life magazine was
shifted into a picture magazine by Time magazine's Henry
R Luce. Prior to that is was a humor and general interest
1963 - The first episode of the BBC's Doctor Who premiered.
'Doctor Who' is not his name - we don't know it. He
is simply 'The Doctor.'
1969 - The Rolling Stones made their final appearance
on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing featured the songs
"Gimme Shelter," "Love In Vain"
and "Honky Tonk Woman."
1975 - NBC joined Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
(in progress) at the conclusion of an overtime NFL game.
Kids missed about 45 minutes of the film.
1980 (Earthquake) Conza, Italy - estimated 3,000 people
were killed.
1982 - Terms of Endearment was released in US theaters.
1991 - Freddie Mercury (September 1946 – 24 November
1991) confirmed that he has AIDS the day before he died.
1993 - The Food Network made its debut.
2002 - The Miss World contest was forced to relocate
to London from Abuja after riots by Islamic extremists
opposed to the contest left more than 100 people dead
and hundreds injured in Nigeria.
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1639 - First observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah
Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish the
size of our Solar System.
1859 - Charles Darwin published "On the Origin
of Species." A first printing sells for around
1874 - The patent (#157,124) for barbed wire was issued
to Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois.
1896 - The first US absentee voting law (voting via
mail) was enacted by Vermont.
1903 - The patent (#745,157) for an automobile electric
self-starter was issued to Clyde J. Coleman of New York
City. Prior to that, they were hand-cranked.
1954 - Air Force One, the first US Presidential airplane,
was christened. It was the third of three C-121 Constellation
airplanes, the "Columbine III." A 1953 incident
where Eisenhower's aircraft was "Air Force 8610"
and an Eastern Airlines plane was "Eastern 8610"
created the need to devise a unique call sign.
1963 - Jack Ruby shot and killed President Kennedy's
suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was the first
live murder shown on American television.
1964 - For first time since 1800, residents of Washington,
DC were permitted to vote.
1971 - Dan "DB" Cooper parachuted from a
Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 in ransom money, somewhere
over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland,
Washington, in the Pacific Northwest area.
1982 - Orioles' Cal Ripken was named AL Rookie of Year.
In his creerer he compiled 3,184 hits, 431 home runs,
and 1,695 runs batted in. From May 30, 1982 to September
19, 1998, he played 2632 consecutive games, another
MLB record.
1988 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KYMA,
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012 - Gangnam Style became the most viewed youtube
video surpassing 808 million views. As of late 2015,
it was over 2.4 billion views.
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1792 - The Old Farmer's Almanac first published by Robert
B. Thomas. He added "Old" to the title in
1832 because there was so much competition in the Farmer's
Almanac business.
1884 - The patent (#308,422) for the process of evaporated
milk was issued to John Meyenberg, of St Louis, Missouri.
1920 - The Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade is
the oldest in the US, starting on this date.
1937 - World's Fair of Paris (Exposition Internationale
des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne - International
Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern
Life) closed, with 31.2 million visitors.
1940 - Woody Woodpecker debuted with release of Walter
Lantz's "Knock Knock." He was actually the
antagonist to Andy Panda (already established character)
in the cartoon.
1947 - The 'Hollywood Ten' consisting of Alvah Bessie,
Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring
Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel
Ornitz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo were cited for
contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony
to the House Committee on Un-American Activities
1959 - "Once Upon a Mattress" opened at Alvin
Theater New York City. The play was written as an adaptation
of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess
and the Pea.
1963 - John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington
National Cemetery. The flags in Arlington National Cemetery
are flown at half-staff from a half hour before the
first funeral until a half hour after the last funeral
each day.
1973 - Maximum speed limit was cut to 55 MPH as an
energy conservation measure.
1975 - The patent (#3,922,552) for a whole-body X-ray
scanner was issued to Robert S. Ledley.
1979 - Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcasted a
NFL game (Vikings vs Buccaneers) together for the first
1984 - Band Aid which was founded by Bob Geldof to
help raise money to assist famine stricken Ethiopia,
recorded the single Do They Know It's Christmas in a
London studio. The group included Adam Clayton (U2),
Phil Collins (Genesis, solo), Bob Geldof (The Boomtown
Rats), Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), Chris Cross (Ultravox),
John Taylor (Duran Duran), Paul Young, Tony Hadley (Spandau
Ballet), Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), Simon Le Bon (Duran
Duran), Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats), Marilyn, Keren
(Bananarama), Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Jody Watley
(Shalamar), Bono (U2), Paul Weller (The Style Council),
James Taylor (Kool & The Gang), Peter Blake (credited
as 'sleeve artist'), George Michael (Wham!), Midge Ure
(Ultravox), Martin Ware (Heaven 17), John Keeble (Spandau
Ballet), Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Roger Taylor (Duran
Duran), Sara (Bananarama), Siobhan (Bananarama), Pete
Briquette (The Boomtown Rats), Francis Rossi (Status
Quo), Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang), Dennis
Thomas (Kool & the Gang), Andy Taylor (Duran Duran),
Jon Moss (Culture Club), Sting (The Police), Rick Parfitt
(Status Quo), Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran), Johnny Fingers
(The Boomtown Rats), Boy George (Culture Club), Holly
(Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Paul McCartney (The Beatles,
Wings) and David Bowie .
2009 - Wikileaks - Information about 9/11 attacks on
the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were distributed
online, with more than 500,000 intercepted pager messages,
mainly from US officials posted by wikileaks founder,
Julian Assange.
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1703 Great Storm - more than 8,000 people perished and
the first Eddystone Lighthouse (Winstanley's lighthouse)
was totally destroyed overnight.
1716 - First African lion was exhibited in America
(in Boston). It was just a single lion, which supposedly
later joined a "menagerie" which was basically
a traveling circus of exotic animals.
1789 - First (unofficial) national Thanksgiving in
USA recognized by the new government. The 1621 good
harvest celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts
was first celebrated in North America.
1825 - Kappa Alpha fraternity was founded at Union
College, NY.
1832 - The first New York City streetcar ran along
Bowery Street in New York, with a 12 cent fare.
1867 - The patent (#71,423) for a refrigerated railroad
car was issued to J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan.
1917 - The NHL (National Hockey League) formed, consisting
of four teams - Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers,
Ottawa Senators, and the Quebec Bulldogs. The Bulldogs
were replaced by the Arenas shortly thereafter.
1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opened King
Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt. Over the
centuries almost every mummy tomb had been found and
plundered - this was possible the greatest archaeological
find of that period.
1941 - President Franklin D Roosevelt established that
the fourth Thursday in November would be Thanksgiving
Day .
1942 - "Casablanca" premiered at Hollywood
Theater, in New York City. It came out in wide release
January 23, 1943.
1945 - Charlie "Bird" Parker lead a record
date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest
Jazz session ever." Recording as Charlie Parker's
Reboppers, the group included Dizzie Gillespie and Miles
Davis on trumpet, Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach
on drums. The tracks included during this session include
"Ko-Ko", "Billie's Bounce" and "Now's
the Time".
1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm)
of rain fell in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever
on record
1976 - The Sex Pistols released their debut single
"Anarchy In The UK." It came from their only
album - 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.'
1977 - The Hobbit, produced by Rankin/Bass, was shown
on NBC.
1983 - Six gunmen broke into the Brinks Mat warehouse
at the Heathrow Airport making off with three tons of
gold bars valued at almost 48 million dollars (at that
time). In modern perspective, it is worth over $125,000,000.
Most of the gold was never recovered.
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1826 - Chemist John Walker invented the friction match
in England.
1834 - The direct current (DC) electric motor was invented
by Thomas Davenport.
1910 - Pennsylvania Station opened, called so because
the Pennsylvania Railroad trains began using it November
27, 1910.
1924 - Macy's department store held its first Thanksgiving
Day parade down a two-mile stretch of Broadway in New
York City.
1952 - CBS began broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade.
1973 - The US Senate approved Gerald R. Ford as the
US' 40th vice president, after the resignation of Spiro
T. Agnew, who plead guilty to income tax evasion.
1975 - Guinness Book of Records co-founder and editor
Ross McWhirter was shot dead outside his North London
home. Police believe it was an IRA hit.
1978 - The White Shadow premiered on CBS.
1980 - Bosom Buddies premiered on ABC.
2005 - 13-year-old bat mitzvah Elizabeth Brooks had
50 Cent & Aerosmith perform at her celebration at
New York's Rainbow Room.
2011 - Mexico City briefly held the world record of
having the largest "zombie walk" in the world
after almost 10,000 people dressed as zombies paraded
through the city. Several walks have beaten that record.
2013 - "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated
film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen
Bell, was released.
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2348 BC - A supposed comet , under divine guidance,
passed near Earth, causing the Great Flood, in the opinion
of Anglican priest and mathematician, William Whiston.
They did not know much about comets in 1696.
1582 - William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (not
the 'our' Anne Hathaway)
1717 - Blackbeard attacked a French merchant vessel
called "La Concorde", which he captured and
renamed as the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
1895 - America's first auto race started: 6 cars, 55
miles, the winner averaged 7 MPH.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its (weekly) radio debut
on station WSM, in Nashville, Tennessee..
1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer
Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theater, The Orpheum.
It was a renovated 600 seat burlesque house.
1922 - The first skywriting in the US was demonstrated
over Times Square, New York City, by Capt. Cyril Turner
of the Royal Air Force. Flying at 10,000 feet, he wrote
letters in white smoke a half-mile high: Hello, U.S.A.
Call Vanderbilt 7200. It was an advertisement for the
American Tobacco Company.
1934 - Infamous bank robber George "Baby Face"
Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, Illinois.
1942 - Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire, Boston Massachusettes.
Nearly 500 people were killed in the blaze. This fire
was probably the single biggest reason 'EXIT' signs
are now in (US) public places.
1948 - The Polaroid Land Camera went on sale, at a
Boston department store. The 40 series, model 95 roll
film camera sold for $89.75.
1964 - Mariner 4 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night aired
their last 'live' episodes, switching to pre-recorded
1984 - William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill
Penn were made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
1994 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died of injuries
received after he was attacked by other prisoners while
cleaning a prison toilet. Or maybe one other prisoner.
'Nobody saw nothin', it was reported.
1995 - President Bill Clinton ended the federal 55
mph speed limit that began in 1974, as an energy-saving
1997 - The last episode of Beavis and Butt-Head aired
on MTV. The series was later resumed again briefly in
2001 - Enron Corporation, once the world's largest
energy trader, covering major electricity, natural gas,
communications, pulp and paper, and with over 20,000
employees, essentially went out of business.
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533 (Earthquake) Aleppo (now Syria) - 130,000 people
estimated killed.
1681 - The Royal College of Physicians, in Edinburgh,
Scotland, was granted its charter by King Charles II.
1825 - First Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville"
premiered (in New York City, at the Park Theatre)
1910 - The US patent (#976,939) for inventing the traffic
lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine. Similar
patents were granted to others later.
1932 - The patent (#1,889,729) was issued for the first
card game table with an automatic dealing device, to
Laurens Hammond of Chicago, Ill. He later invented the
Hammond organ.
1933 - First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania).
It may be true that the state of Pennsylvania is the
largest buyer of wine and spirits in the world.
1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his
famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat',
a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen
interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Once the cat is in the box, do you know if it really
alive, or dead?
1947 - The United Nations voted in favor of separating
Palestine and allowed for the creation of an Independent
Jewish State - Israel.
1951 - The first U.S. underground atom bomb test, designated
"Uncle", was detonated. The low-yield 1.2
kiloton bomb was buried 17-ft sub-surface at Frenchman
Flat, a 123-square-mile (320-sq.km.) dry lake bed at
the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
1959 - Grammy Awards were first televised on NBC.
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 was launched with Enos (a chimpanzee)
on board. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed
down about 200 miles south of Bermuda. The flight lasted
3 hours and 20 minutes. Enos survived, and later died
on November 4, 1962.
1972 - Atari presented Pong, as an arcade game. By
1974 there was a home version.
2004 - Godzilla got his star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.
2011 - Dr. Conrad Murray received a four-year sentence
for involuntary manslaughter, in Michael Jackson's death.
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1609 - Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a
landscape, not a flat surface on a circle in the sky.
1858 - The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186)
by Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason.
1872 - First international soccer game was played.
Final score: Scotland-England 0-0 (in Glasgow)
1875 - A patent (#170,460) was issued for a "Biscuit
Cutter" was issued to Alexander P. Ashbourne.
1886 - The first commercially successful U.S. alternating
current power plant was opened at Buffalo, NY by George
1897 - A patent (#594,501) for a "Device for Rolling
Cigarettes" was issued to American inventor J.A.
1954 - First proven meteorite known to strike a woman/person
(Liz Hodges, in Sylacauga, Alabama). It took a year
of pleading with the air force, but she was allowed
to keep the 9 pound meteorite.
1956 - CBS became the first network to broadcast from
videotape. It was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of
the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program.
It was recorded on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV
1971 - TV movie "Brian's Song," aired for
first time on ABC
1979 - Pink Floyd released "The Wall" double
album. "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have
any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don't
eat your meat!"
1993 - The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting
period for handgun purchases and background checks of
prospective buyers, was signed into law.
1994 - Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro caught
fire off Somalia, with 3 people dead, and most of the
nearly 1,000 passengers and crew escaping in lifeboats.
It sank on December 2nd.
2009 - CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
started. "CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today
become the world's highest energy particle accelerator,
having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy
of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning."
CERN is experimenting with things linke "The Big
Bang" but hopefully on a smaller scale.
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Clemens Wilhelm (*1980 West-Berlin) is a multi media artist living in Berlin. He works mainly in video and photography. His works are conceptual and revolve around ideas of society and identity. He often works in series. His work has been exhibited in many countries and institutions.
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A person was hit by a train near the post-game gatherings on State Street on Monday night, said Sherelle Roberts, Lexington police spokeswoman.
The individual was found alive by the Lexington Fire Department, Roberts said. The Fire Department got to the individual via Burley Avenue, which sits across the tracks from Transcript Avenue near State Street.
Lexington police officer Chris Young said, to his understanding, it was not a life-threatening injury.
It appeared that the individual stumbled into the train while it was either stopped or just starting to go, Young said. When the train started to move, it threw the individual off to the side of the tracks, he said. It appeared that being flung to the side of the tracks is what injured the individual, Young said.
An ambulance was seen taking the individual away from the scene at about 1:10 a.m. Tuesday.


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EFR change could cost North Bend
January 16, 2013
By Staff
Sammamish could trim its fire service costs by between $156,000 and $314,000 a year if Eastside Fire & Rescue partners agree to a new funding model that reflects the amount of calls each jurisdiction produces.
But it remains to be seen whether other partners that make up the fire consortium — namely the cities of Issaquah and North Bend — would sign on to a new funding method that would substantially increase their fire bills in the name of maintaining the current incarnation of EFR past 2014.
A committee of elected officials and city staff from each partner met Dec. 20 to discuss the implications of using call load as a factor in determining how much to charge.
EFR currently bases the yearly bill on the assessed value of property covered by each station. Sammamish officials have long complained that this unfairly charges its residents for stations that spend more of their time responding to the city of Issaquah and to Klahanie in District 10.
Committee members discussed using a hybrid model – either 75 percent assessed value and 25 percent based on the amount of calls produced or a 50/50 split.
Representatives for Issaquah and North Bend both pushed for the 75/25 split, while Sammamish leaders continue to advocate for a 50/50 split – something they've demanded since last year. Sammamish has threatened to pull out of EFR if its demands are not met.
Making fire bills reflect the use of specific stations would raise Issaquah's yearly contribution to the agency by approximately $246,000 under the 75/25 model and as much as $492,000 under the 50/50 split. North Bend would also see a rise in its fire bill – approximately $76,000 under the 75/25 model and $151,000 under the 50/50 split.
If EFR were to change its model, attendees discussed phasing in 5 percent increments per year to help Issaquah and North Bend adjust to the change.
The city councils and commissioners of each partner would have to approve any changes to the funding model before reentering the interlocal agreement that underpins EFR.
Sammamish Mayor Tom Odell said the calculations confirm what he and others have suspected for years – that charging partners based on the value of their property doesn't accurately reflect the amount each partner uses the fire service.
"I think it shows everybody, not just (Sammamish representatives), that there's a problem out there that has not been addressed," Odell said.
North Bend Mayor Ken Hearing said he had "mixed feelings" about the proposed changes to the funding model. Hearing said it's in the best interest of his city to keep the EFR partnership together, since the city and other partners realize significant cost savings by spreading administrative costs across five partners. But a 9.7 percent increase in the annual fire bill would be hard to stomach, regardless of whether it is phased in or not, he said.
"We pay about half of what we would if we were running our own fire department – we get a screaming hot deal (with EFR)," Hearing said. "But having to pass along increases like that at a time when money is tight in the city budget would be difficult."
How much money?
Sammamish and King County Fire Districts 10 and 38 would save money if EFR were to begin charging partners based on the amount of calls that originate in their territory, although Issaquah and North Bend would see more expensive fire bills. Below, the percentage change in payments for each partner based on different funding models. (AV means assessed value)
75 percent AV/ 50 percent AV/ 100 percent calls
25 calls 50 calls
Sammamish (-2.8 percent) (-5.5 percent) (-11.65 percent)
Issaquah 4.8 percent 9.7 percent 23.1 percent
North Bend 9.7 percent 19.5 percent 47.6 percent
District 10 (-1.1 percent) (-2.2 percent) (-7.3 percent)
District 38 (-6.85 percent) (-13.7 percent) (-29.8 percent)
Reporter Caleb Heeringa can be reached at 392-6434. ext. 247.
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