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Gravdigr · 11-09-2016, 11:13 AM

November 9

♪ ♫What fools we were to think we could get by♪ ♫
♪ ♫With only those 44 presidents we've tried.♪ ♫
♪ ♫We should have known the worst was yet to come.♪ ♫
♪ ♫And that Crying Time for us had just begun.♪ ♫

There are 52 days remaining in 2016.

There are 45 days until Christmas.

Today is World Freedom Day in the United States.

Events

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.

1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him back to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. The fire is contained in 12 hours, after burning ~65 acres of downtown Boston, consuming 776 buildings, much of the financial district, and causing ~$73.5 million in damage. Thirteen people died.

1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes region, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

1955 - The Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings cutting four tracks in 22 minutes, at Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel studios.

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.

1965 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, How I Won the War and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

1979 – Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.

1990 - The IRS seized all of US country singer Willie Nelson's bank accounts and real estate holdings in connection with a $16 million tax debt.

1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Births

1801 – Gail Borden (invented condensed milk); 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy; 1825 – A. P. Hill; 1841 – Edward VII; 1869 – Marie Dressler; 1886 – Ed Wynn; 1892 – Mabel Normand; 1914 – Hedy Lamarr; 1918 – Spiro Agnew; 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith (Medgar Evers' assassin); 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge; 1928 – Anne Sexton; 1934 – Carl Sagan; 1941 – Tom Fogerty♪ ♫(Creedence Clearwater Revival); 1942 – Tom Weiskopf; 1947 – Robert David Hall

(coroner on CSI); 1948 – Joe Bouchard

(Blue Oyster Cult); 1951 – Lou Ferrigno; 1970 – Susan Tedeschi♪ ♫(Tedeschi Trucks Band); 1972 – Eric Dane ('Dr. McSteamy' on Grey's Anatomy); 1973 – Nick Lachey♪ ♫(98 Degrees)

Deaths

1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge; 1940 – Neville Chamberlain; 1953 – Ibn Saud; 1953 – Dylan Thomas; 1970 – Charles de Gaulle; 1991 – Yves Montand; 2003 – Art Carney; 2004 – Stieg Larsson; 2006 – Ed Bradley

11-09-2016, 11:13 AM	#397
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	November 9 ♪ ♫What fools we were to think we could get by♪ ♫ ♪ ♫With only those 44 presidents we've tried.♪ ♫ ♪ ♫We should have known the worst was yet to come.♪ ♫ ♪ ♫And that Crying Time for us had just begun.♪ ♫ There are 52 days remaining in 2016. There are 45 days until Christmas. Today is World Freedom Day in the United States. Events 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter. 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government). 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him back to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. 1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. The fire is contained in 12 hours, after burning ~65 acres of downtown Boston, consuming 776 buildings, much of the financial district, and causing ~$73.5 million in damage. Thirteen people died. 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes region, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people. 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht. 1955 - The Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings cutting four tracks in 22 minutes, at Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel studios. 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965. 1965 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, How I Won the War and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled. 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov. 1990 - The IRS seized all of US country singer Willie Nelson's bank accounts and real estate holdings in connection with a $16 million tax debt. 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. Births 1801 – Gail Borden (invented condensed milk); 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy; 1825 – A. P. Hill; 1841 – Edward VII; 1869 – Marie Dressler; 1886 – Ed Wynn; 1892 – Mabel Normand; 1914 – Hedy Lamarr; 1918 – Spiro Agnew; 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith (Medgar Evers' assassin); 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge; 1928 – Anne Sexton; 1934 – Carl Sagan; 1941 – Tom Fogerty♪ ♫(Creedence Clearwater Revival); 1942 – Tom Weiskopf; 1947 – Robert David Hall(coroner on CSI); 1948 – Joe Bouchard(Blue Oyster Cult); 1951 – Lou Ferrigno; 1970 – Susan Tedeschi♪ ♫(Tedeschi Trucks Band); 1972 – Eric Dane ('Dr. McSteamy' on Grey's Anatomy); 1973 – Nick Lachey♪ ♫(98 Degrees) Deaths 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge; 1940 – Neville Chamberlain; 1953 – Ibn Saud; 1953 – Dylan Thomas; 1970 – Charles de Gaulle; 1991 – Yves Montand; 2003 – Art Carney; 2004 – Stieg Larsson; 2006 – Ed Bradley __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. 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