November 1, 2023
QUOTE
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you’re going to get in this lifetime.
--Kinky Friedman
BIRTHDAYS
846 – Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king
1918 – Ken Miles, English-American race car driver
1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster
1944 – Kinky Friedman, Singer-songwriter and author
IN MEMORY
1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian
1955 – Dale Carnegie, Author and educator
1985 – Phil Silvers, Actor and comedian
1999 – Walter Payton, Football player and race car driver
IN ON THIS DAY
1520 – The Strait of Magellan is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.