November 4, 2023
QUOTE
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
--Andy Rooney
BIRTHDAYS
1879 – Will Rogers, Actor and screenwriter
1916 – John Basilone, Sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
1937 – Loretta Swit, Actress and singer
1950 – Markie Post, Actress
1969 – Matthew McConaughey, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1955 – Cy Young, Baseball player and manager
1992 – George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair
1995 – Paul Eddington, English actor
2011 – Andy Rooney, Author, critic, journalist, and television personality
IN ON THIS DAY
1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.