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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of November 03:

 39 Lucan Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1718 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin colonized Texas
1794 William Cullen Bryant poet (Thanatopsis)
1801 Karl Baedeker Germany, published travel books
1879 Vilhjalmur Stefansson Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist
1880 Edmond Barrett heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
19-- Leonard Stone Salem Oregon, actor (Doc-Camp Runamuck)
19-- Peggy McCay actress (Days of our Life)
19-- Philip J Amelio II Sharon CT, actor (Kevin-Life With Lucy)
1901 Andre‚ Malraux France, novelist/art historian (L'Espoir)
1903 Walker Evans US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1908 Bronko Nagurski NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 James Reston columnist (NY Times)
1911 Vladimir Ussachevsky Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1918 Bob Feller pitcher (Cleveland Indian, 3 no-hitters)
1918 Russell B Long (D-Sen-La)
1919 Bert Freed NYC, actor (Rufe-Shane)
1922 Charles Bronson Pennsylvania, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen)
1930 Ken Berry Moline IL, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family)
1930 Lois Smith Topeka KS, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
1930 William H Dana pilot (X-15)
1931 Monica Vitti Rome Italy, actress (Tigers in Lipstick)
1933 Aneta Corsaut Jutchinson KS, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith
1933 Ken Berry actor/dancer/TV personality (F Troop, Mayberry RFD)
1933 Louis W Sullivan US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1989- )
1933 Michael S Dukakis (D-Gov-MA) (1988 Presidentidential Candidate)
1935 Jeremy Brett actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
1936 Roy Emerson Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon '64, '65)
1937 Paula Wayne Hobart OK, actress
1939 Terrence McNally St Petersburg FL, playwright (Bad Habits)
1943 Ken Holtzman Cub/Oriole/Yankee pitcher (2 no-hitters)
1948 Lulu Glasgow Scotland, singer/actress (To Sir With Love)
1948 Tom Shales TV Critic (Washington Post)
1949 Larry Holmes heavyweight boxing champ (1978)
1949 Michael Evans Salisbury NC, actor (Lionel-All in the Family)
1949 Roswitha Krause USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1952 Roseanne Barr Arnold Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne)
1953 Dennis Miller Pittsburgh PA, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1954 Adam Ant [Stuart Goddard], punk rocker (If I Strip For You)
1954 Kevin P Chilton Los Angeles CA, major USAF/astronaut (sk: STS-49)
1955 Phil Simms NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Superbowl 1986)
1959 Dolph Lundgren actor (Rocky IV)
1959 Timothy Patrick Murphy Hartford CT, actor (Dallas, Glitter)
1961 Karch Kiraly US volleyball player (Olympics-gold-1988)
1961 Kari Michaelsen NYC, actress (Katie-Gimme a Break)
1962 Kimberly Evenson Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984)
1962 Marilyn rocker (You Don't Love Me)

Deaths which occurred on November 03:

1864 Antonio Gonsalves Dias Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1926 Annie Oakley dies
1962 Harlow H Curtice President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
1983 Alfredo Antonini conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1990 Mary Martin actress (Peter Pan), dies at 76

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    BOWLES           DWIGHT POLLARD    STAUNTON              VA       
 1967    EGGER            JOHN C. JR.       TULSA                 OK        REMAINS IDNETIFIED 15 AUG 94
 1967    GRAUERT          HANS H.           ROCHESTER             NY       
 1967    KRUSI            PETER H.          SMITHFIELD            UT       
 1969    BROWN            WILLIAM T.        LA HABRA              CA       
 1969    NORTON           MICHAEL R.        ESKDALE               WV       
 1969    SHUE             DONALD M.         KANNAPOLIS            NC       
 1969    WALD             GUNTHER H.        BERGEN                NJ       
 1970    CARVER           ROBERT C          AUSTRALIA                    AUSTRALIAN  AIR FORCE 2ND SQ RAAF  BOMBING MISSION DA NANG
 1970    DAY              DENNIS I.         BLACKWELL             OK     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    DORITY           RICHARD C.        DOVER-FOXCROFT        ME     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    GINN             DAVID L.          ANDERSON              SC     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    HERBERT          MICHAEL P.        AUSTRALIA                    AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE  
 1970    KITCHENS         PERRY C.          DECATUR               GA     11/24/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID 03/16/77  
 1970    MANGUS           ARLIE R.          KITTANNING            PA     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    MARTIN           JERRY D.          BEDFORD               IN     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    NORRIS           CALVIN A.         MONTEREY              TN     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    PANTALL          JAMES R.          CLYMER                PA     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    SHEWMAKE         JOHN D. SR.       ADONA                 AR     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1970    WOODS            DAVID W.          FRANKLIN              OH     "LCU SANK, NO SURV OBS"  
 1971    DE CAIRE         JACK L.           ST PETERSBURG         FL

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On this day...

1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1679 Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1820 Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence
1839 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
1899 Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey
1900 1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Colombia grants Panama independence
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 1st class mail now costs $0.03
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1931 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1953 "Sacrifice fly" reactivated in baseball (1939)
1953 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1955 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands
1956 "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1973 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1982 Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cavalier shots tying NBA regulation game record
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for Presidency (D)
1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 John Lennon album, "Menlove Avenue" released
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 Minnesota Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, lose to Seattle, 106-94
1991 NYC Marathon winners are Salvador Garcia (Mex) & Liz McColgan (Scot)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President




Holidays

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

Ecuador : Cuenca's Independence Day
Japan : Culture Day
Panama : Independence Day (1903)
Texas : Father of Texas Day (1793)
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 )
Dominica : National Day

Religious Observances

RC : Memorial of Blessed Martin de Porres, confessor (opt)
Chr : Commemoration of St Hubert, bishop of LiŠge, patron of hunters
RC : Commemoration of St Malachy, Irish bishop
Ang : Commemoration of Richard Hooker, priest
RC : Feast of Blessed Martin de Porres, confessor

Religious History

0753 Death of St. Pirminius, first abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Reichenau (located in modern Germany). His name endures today as author of a book entitled "Scarapsus," which is the earliest known writing to contain the Apostles' Creed as it is worded in its present form.
1631 English clergyman John Eliot, 27, first arrived in America, at Boston. He afterward became the first Protestant minister to devote himself to evangelization of the American Indian.
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, first arrived in America, at New York City. He was the first Methodist bishop to come to the New World.
1818 Pliny Fisk, 26, set sail for Palestine. Ordained by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Fisk became the first American missionary to journey to the Near East.
1925 The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance was organized at St. Louis, MO. It became the forerunner of a new denomination, established in 1932 as the Pentecostal Church, Inc.

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)

Thought for the day :

" Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. "
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