November 5, 2023
QUOTE
Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
--Art Garfunkel
BIRTHDAYS
1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright
1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 – Art Garfunkel, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Gram Parsons, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Tatum O’Neal, Actress and author
IN MEMORY
1960 – Johnny Horton, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Guy Lombardo, Violinist and conductor
1979 – Al Capp, Cartoonist
1991 – Fred MacMurray, Actor and businessman
2015 – George Barris, Engineer and car designer
IN ON THIS DAY
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
1872 – Women’s suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.