On this day ......

[ozguy]

A new game! Post an interesting/significant 'tidbit' from history that occurred on the same day you made your post. One rule .... only ONE piece of information per post allowed.

Here's mine to start things off .....


October 31st, 1795 the Romantic poet, John Keats, was born.

 

[kevbo]

1987 - Joseph Campbell passed away

 

[jd8686]

1975 - Queen released the single Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 in the UK Charts.

 

[jd8686]

1982 - These things were born. . .

The Cheeky Girls

 

[dynk]

October 31, 1978, Joselina Garcia, Miss Honduras Universe 1997

 

[ozguy]

Oct 31, 1993 - River Phoenix died at the age of 23 after collapsing outside The Viper Room in Hollywood.

 

[tx_doc]

On October 31, 2006 - Bob Barker officially retired from being host on the Price is Right.

 

[dynk]

October 31, 1949 Bob Selbenberg, rocker, Supertramp was born.

 

[ozguy]

November 1st, 1952 .... The first hydrogen bomb was exploded on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

 

[ozguy]

November 2nd, 1961 ..... k. d. lang, Canadian singer songwriter, was born.

 

[Shepherd 2]

Some will have celebrated All Souls Day,
and in Mexico, it will El Dios Los Muertes. When good people will pack a picnic and eaten in the cemetery to honor the beloved dead.
Shep+

 

[dynk]

November 2, 1947
Spruce Goose flies
The Hughes Flying Boat--the largest aircraft ever built--is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight.

 

[ozguy]

November 3rd, 1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second man-made satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into space, a dog named Laika.

 

[dynk]

On this day in 1964, residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation's capital the right to vote for a commander in chief and vice president.

 

[kevbo]

On November 3, 1992, William Jefferson Clinton was elected the 42nd President of the United States of America

I remember this, because I was in Kindergarten, and we held a mock election. At the end of the vote, my teacher asked the whole class, "And who did we all vote for, students?" Everyone else shouted, "GEORGE BUSH!" I was the only one who said Bill Clinton.

Rural elementary schools suck...

 

[dynk]

November 3, 1903
Panama declares independence

 

[tx_doc]

...I remember this, because I was in Kindergarten
...

wow, I'm getting old. That was the first presidential election that I was able to vote in.

November 3, 1957 - U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

 

[dynk]

November 3, 1986
Iran arms sales revealed

 

[Shepherd 2]

Forty-eight years ago,
I was baptized in a river after the ice was broken.
I hesitated, and reasoned, I will do anything for you Lord,
if only I survive and do not get sick.
Shep+ (Guess what?)

 

[dynk]

November 3, 1979
Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro

Five members of the Communist Workers Party, participating in a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, are shot to death by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. Seven others were wounded.