November 7, 2022
QUOTE
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
--Leon Trotsky
BIRTHDAYS
1728 – James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer
1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army
1947 – Ron Leavitt, Screenwriter and producer
1957 – King Kong Bundy, Wrestler
IN MEMORY
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States
1980 – Steve McQueen, Actor and producer
1981 – Will Durant, Historian and philosopher
IN ON THIS DAY
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1504 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.
1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite 3.7 miles away before it can explode.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.