Those born on this date include Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs in 1855; historians Ida Tarbell in 1857 and Will Durant in 1885; inventor and industrialist Raymond Loewy, the "father of streamlining," in 1893; band leader Jan Garber in 1897; cowboy singer/actor Roy Rogers in 1912; musicians Ike Turner in 1931 (age 72) and Art Garfunkel in 1941 (age 62); actresses Vivien Leigh in 1913, Elke Sommer in 1941 (age 62) and Tatum O'Neal in 1963 (age 40); dramatist/actor Sam Shepard in 1943 (age 60); and pop singer/songwriter Bryan Adams in 1959 (age 44).
On this date in history:
In 1605, Guy Fawkes and fellow conspirators failed in their plot to blow up the English Parliament. They were beheaded.
In 1733, German-born publisher John Peter Zenger began printing The New York Weekly Journal in opposition to the British colonial administration.
In 1854, combined British-French forces scored a decisive victory over the Russians in the Crimea.
In 1930, the first commercial television broadcast was aired.
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to an unprecedented third term.
In 1990, an Egyptian-born gunman, apparently acting alone, assassinated Meir Kahane, the U.S. native who founded the militant Jewish Defense League and was thrown out of Israel's parliament for his racist anti-Arab views.
Also in 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an order requiring the U.S. Army to permit homosexuals to re-enlist.
In 1991, the body of British media mogul Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.
Also in 1991, Kiichi Miyazawa was formally appointed premier of Japan, succeeding Toshiki Kaifu.
In 1992, former U.S. world chess champion Bobby Fischer triumphed in his $5 million rematch against Russian arch-rival Boris Spassky. The match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was staged in defiance of U.N. sanctions against the Yugoslav federation.
In 1996, President Clinton was re-elected.
In 2002, Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and retained their hold on the House, giving President George W. Bush a historic victory in mid-term elections that traditionally go against the incumbent president.
Also in 2002, the embattled chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Harvey Pitt, resigned on election night, amid a political row sparked by an appointment to a new accounting oversight board.
And, In 2002, the Galileo space probe, blasted by harsh radiation, shut down as it made its closest approach ever to Jupiter, leaving scientists wondering what data, if any, the probe would be able to transmit to tell them about Jupiter's inner moon Amalthea and the planet's magnetosphere.
A thought for the day: inventor and industrialist Raymond Loewy said, "Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other."
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Classic Quotes
(Note: All of today's quotes come from the mind, and mouth, of Albert Einstein)
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
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"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice."
Charles Mims
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