Today is Tuesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day
of 2003 with 57 to follow.
Those born on this date include British King
William III, known as William of Orange, in 1650; humorist Will Rogers in 1879;
reporter Walter Cronkite in 1916 (age 87); actors Art Carney in 1918 (age 85),
Martin Balsam in 1919 and Loretta Swit in 1937 (age 66); First Lady Laura Bush
and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1946 (57); actors Markie
Post in 1950 (age 53), Ralph Macchio ("The Karate Kid") in 1962 (age 41), and
Matthew McConaughey in 1969 (age 34); singer/actor/songwriter Sean "Puffy" Combs
in 1971 (age 32).
On this date in history:
In 1922, British
archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of ancient Egypt's child-king,
Tutankhamen.
In 1952, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected
president, ending 20 years of Democratic administrations.
In 1956, Soviet
forces entered Budapest to crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary.
In
1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking some 90 people
hostage, 63 of them Americans.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected 40th
president in a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter.
In 1986,
Democrats regained control of the U.S. Senate, 55-45.
In 1990,
singer/actress Mary Martin died at age 76.
In 1991, former First Lady
Imelda Marcos returned to Philippines, ending more than five years of exile in
United States.
In 1993, Canadian Liberal Party leader Jean Chretien was
sworn in as prime minister.
In 1994, the U.N. Security Council voted
unanimously to withdraw the remaining 17,000 U.N. troops from Somalia by
mid-March 1995.
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was
assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in Tel
Aviv.
In 1997, Republicans swept the off-year elections.
In 2001,
intense bombing by U.S.-led forces pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul while
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a tour of the region, told reporters
in Uzbehistan that strikes on Taliban targets were showing "measurable
progress."
And in 2001 sports, the underdog Arizona Diamondbacks beat the
New York Yankees, 3-2, in the deciding seventh game of the World Series to win
the four-year-old expansion team's first championship and spoil the Yankees' bid
for four straight.
In 2002, the State Department warned Americans in the
Middle East to be on guard for future terrorist attacks.
Also in 2002,
Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston made his most candid apology for
assigning sexually abusive priests to parishes where they continued to have
access to children. For the first time, Law acknowledged had he acted
differently, some children might not have been sexually abused by
priests.
And, in 2002, Several thousand Iranians, mostly students,
rallied outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran and in other cities across the
country to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the diplomatic compound 23
years ago.
A thought for the day: humorist Will Rogers said, "My
forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the
boat."
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Classic
Quotes
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"[Medicine is] a collection of
uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal
than useful to mankind."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -
1821)
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"Don't live in a town where there are
no doctors."
Jewish Proverb
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"One of
the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take
medicine."
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside
Teachings (1961) p. 105
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"Formerly, when
religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when
science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for
magic."
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and
Scientism"
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"The art of medicine consists in
amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Voltaire (1694 -
1778)
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