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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of November 04:

 1650 William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)
1862 Eden Phillpotts England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
1873 GE Moore English philosopher (Ethics)
1876 James Fraser designed buffalo nickel
1879 Will Rogers Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humorist
1886 Ian Wolfe Canton IL, actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors)
19-- Barbara Howard Chicago IL, actress (Robin-Falcon Crest)
19-- Frank Dicostanzo CT, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
1900 Luigi Lucioni Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1906 Bob Considine sports columnist (Bob Feller Story)
1909 Ciro Alegria Peru, novelist (Golden Serpent)
1912 Pauline Trigere fashion designer (Bell Bottoms)
1913 Gig Young St Cloud MN, actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They)
1916 Walter Cronkite St Joseph MO, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
1918 Art Carney Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners)
1918 Cameron Mitchell Dallastown PA, actor (Buck-High Chaparral)
1919 Martin Balsam NYC, actor (Murray-Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22)
1929 Jimmy Piersall baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
1930 Doris Roberts St Louis MO, actress (Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983)
1930 Kate Reid London England, actress (Heaven Help Us)
1931 Darla Hood Leedey OK, singer/actress (Little Rascals)
1932 Noam Pitlik Philadelphia PA, actor/director (Sanford & Son, Bob Newhart)
1937 Loretta Swit Passaic NJ, actress (Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H)
1947 Aleksandr Tkachev USSR, parallel bars gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980)
1947 Alexei Ulanov USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 Berlinda Tolbert Charlotte NC, actor (Jenny-Jeffersons)
1950 Markie Post [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actress (Christine-Night Court)
1954 Chris Difford guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1955 Peter Boynton Maine, actor (Tonio-As the World Turns)
1962 Ralph Macchio Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
1966 Kool Rock [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 Petra Verkaik Los Angeles CA, playmate (Dec, 1989)
1975 Heather Tom actress (Victoria-Young & Restless)
1979 Daisy Eagan Brooklyn NY, actress (Secret Garden)

Deaths which occurred on November 04:

1984 Merie Earle actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
1987 Raphael Soyer artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
1995 Yitzhak Rabin IDF Chief of Staff, diplomat and the fifth Prime Minister of the State of Israel, dies at 73

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1966    BRINCKMANN       ROBERT E.         NEWARK                NJ     31 JULY 1989 REMAINS RETURNED  
 1966    CONNOLLY         VINCENT J.        SAN ANTONIO           TX     DEAD REMAINS RECOVERED 07/17/84  
 1966    HUNT             WILLIAM B.        SAND POINT            ID       
 1966    SCUNGIO          VINCENT A.        NEWCASTLE             PA       
 1969    ALFORD           TERRY L.          PASADENA              TX     REMAINS OF OTHER CREW RECOVERED - J  
 1969    ANDERSON         JOHN STEVEN       WATERLOO              IA     07/73 REM REC  
 1969    BAUER            RICHARD GENE      ANCHORAGE             AK     07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    CASTRO           ALFONSO R.        LOS ANGELES           CA     07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    CAVENDER         JAMES R.          SANTA PAULA           CA     REMAINS OF OTHER CREW RECOVERED  
 1969    HANLEY           LARRY J.          WALLA WALLA           WA       
 1969    KENNEDY          ALAN GORDON       FREMONT               CA     07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    KLIMO            JAMES R.          MUSKEGON              MI     REMAINS OF OTHER CREW RECOVERED  
 1969    MEDARIS          RICK EGGBURTUS    JENISON               MI     07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    PAYNE            JOHN ALLEN        NEW YORK              NY     07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    ROACH            MARION LEE        CENTRAL VALLEY        CA     07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED  
 1969    WARE             JOHN A.           HERMISTON             OR       
 1970    HUMPHREY         LARRY D.                                       ESCAPED CUSTODY TO JOIN VC  COLUMBIA EAGLE MUTINEER  USA TODAY STORY 20 FEB 86
 1970    MC KAY           CLYDE W.                                CA     ESCAPED CUSTODY TO JOIN VC

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On this day...

1576 Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium
1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling)
1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
1875 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies
1879 James & John Ritty patent 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st presidential term
1889 Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1909 The opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1924 California legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
1933 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1934 Pittsburgh ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7
1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1946 UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1949 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV
1951 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1954 Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt
1956 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1959 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins NL MVP
1963 John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line at the Royal Command Variety Performance ("The people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands... and if the rest of you would just rattle your jewelry.")
1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH)
1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works
1972 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1980 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide
1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1986 Democrats gain control over the US Senate
1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father
1987 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
1989 Orlando Magic's 1st NBA game, loses to Nets, 111-106
1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 Secretary of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Italy : Unity Day (1945)/Victory of Vittorio Veneto (1866)
Oklahoma : Will Rogers Day (1879)
Panama, Panama Canal Zone : Flag Day
Tonga : Constitution Day (1970)
Virgin Islands : Liberty Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Liberia : Thanksgiving Day - - - - - ( Thursday )
World : World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace) - - - - - ( Friday )
Denmark : Esbjerg Cup-World's largest ice skating championship - - - - - ( Saturday )

Religious Observances

RC : Memorial of St Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, confessor

Religious History

1646 The Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law making it a capital offense to deny that the Bible was the Word of God. Any person convicted of the offense was liable to the death penalty.
1740 Birth of Anglican clergyman Augustus M. Toplady. A highly respected evangelical leader, Toplady authored the hymn "Rock of Ages" two years before his premature death at 38 in 1778.
1898 The first church to bear the Pentecostal Holiness name was organized at Goldsboro, NC, under the leadership of Methodist evangelist Ambrose Blackman Crumpler, 35.
1936 Future U.S. Senate Chaplain Rev. Peter Marshall, 34, married Catherine Wood, 22. Following Peter's premature death at age 46, Catherine immortalized his name through her 1951 bestĀselling biography, "A Man Called Peter."
1966 London's "Evening Standard" newspaper published John Lennon's controversial remark stating that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." The quote touched off a storm of controversy and international protest, resulting in a world_wide boycott of Beatles music.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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