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a 04 November: 2008 Elections in the US for presidential electors; for all members of the US house of Representatives, for one US Senator in each of these states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming; for the 4-year-term governors of Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia; and the 2-year term governors of New Hampshire and of Vermont; and for a variety of other local and state offices.
2000 US President Clinton vetoes a bill that would have criminalized the leaking of government secrets. 1999 Russia opens Chechen border, thousands flee fighting (CNN) 1998 A new superseding indictment is issued against Osama bin Laden, Muhammad Atef and a host of other suspects. They are charged with bombing of two US embassies and conspiring to commit other acts of terrorism against Americans abroad. Two rewards of $5 million each are offered for Atef and bin Laden. Atef is described as bin Laden's chief military commander. 1997 In the US, the Republicans sweep the off-year elections, with New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman winning re-election, James Gilmore becoming Virginia governor, Vito Fossella taking the New York congressional seat vacated by Susan Molinari, and Rudy Giuliani being re-elected mayor of New York. |
1993 Canadian Liberal Party leader Jean Chretien was sworn in as prime minister. 1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain 1991 Former First Lady Imelda Marcos returned to Philippines, ending more than five years of exile in United States 1991 First time in history that as many as 5 US Presidents are together, as Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and current President George Bush Sr. attend the dedication of his his presidential library in Simi Valley, California., by Ronald Reagan. 1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war" 1986 Democrats regain control of the US Senate, 55-45. 1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% 1980 Ronald Reagan (R) is elected the 40th president of the United States, handily defeatting President Jimmy Carter (D), handicaped by the ongoing Iran hostage crisis, on its first anniversary.
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1948 T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature, for his profound effect on the direction of modern poetry. MORE 1945 The first post-war parliamentary elections in Hungary are held, under Soviet military occupation. Yet these are free, democratic, multi-party elections, whose results are recognized by the Western powers. The winner is the Independent Smallholders’ Party (FKgP), which received an absolute majority of the votes cast (57.03%). The Social Democratic Party (SZDP) comes second with 17.41%, the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP) third with 16.95% and the National Peasant Party (NPP) fourth with 6.87%. Under a prior agreement, these four parties form a coalition government, in which the Communists took several key portfolios, including the Ministry of the Interior.
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1924 Calvin Coolidge is elected 30th president of the United States.
1918 Austria-Hungary signs an armistice with the Allies.
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1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar a protectorate
1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as US President, defeating Republican James G. Blaine. 1870 Le siège de Belfort.commence. Les armées prussiennes prennent place autour de la ville pour plus de cent jours. Le courage du colonel Denfert-Rochereau, qui organise la résistance de la ville, permet que celle-ci résiste aux bombardements comme au froid intense qui s'abat. Denfert-Rochereau ne consentira à se rendre que sur un ordre intimé par le gouvernement. Cela vaudra au territoire de Belfort de rester français tandis que, par le traité de paix, l'Allemagne prend possession du reste de l'Alsace-Lorraine. 1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia 1864 Engagement at Johnsonville, Tennessee 1863 Skirmish near Maysville, Alabama 1863 From the main Confederate Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's troops are sent northeast to besiege Knoxville. 1862 Democrats make substantial gains in Northern states' congressional elections 1854 Florence Nightingale and her nurses arrive in the Crimea. 1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US 1791 General Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne. . 1798 US Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect US shipping. 1760 Following the Russian capture of Berlin, Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Torgau. 1576 Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium 1677 William III and Mary of England wed on William's birthday. 1646 The Massachusetts Bay Colony passes a law making it a capital offense to deny that the Bible is the Word of God. 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Guadeloupe during his second expedition.
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2005 (Eid al-Fitr) Some 80 persons from Dars and Soomro clans, after a ferry capsizes and sinks in in a coastal creek in the Thatta district at the mouth of the Indus River, in Pakistan. 5 persons survive by swimming ashore. The boat was taking people from Khalifa Goth to Ali Mohammad Dars village to attend the funeral of three persons who had died in a boat accident the previous day. 2004 Israeli Yaniv Zikashvili, 24, delivery manager of the Coffee K kosher coffee shop on Manhattan's east side, New York City, after he is stabbed several times by Heral Jimenez, 19, who had just been fired by one of the managers. 2004 Israeli Sgt. Maj. Avi Mimran, 27, a prison guard from Ashkelon, in the afternoon near Avdat on the road from Mitzpeh Ramon to Be'er Sheva, Israel, as the prison vehicle in which he was riding overturns, probably because of a faulty tire. Seven other prison guards are slightly injured. 2004 Five persons by US bombardment in Fallujah, Iraq. |
2003 Sgt. Francisco Martínez, 28, of Humacao,
Puerto Rico, serving in B Detachment, 82nd Soldier Support Battalion (Airborne),
US Army, in Baghdad, Iraq, after a roadside bomb explodes next to the convoy
in which he was. 2003 Spc. Robert T. Benson, 20, of Spokane WA, serving in Company A, 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division Army, in Baghdad, Iraq, from “a non-hostile” gunshot wound. {how consoling!}. 2003 Manadel Al Jamadi, under torture by the CIA at Abu Ghraib prison, in Baghdad, Iraq. At 02:00 he had been captured and then brutalized by Navy Seal Team 7, in his home. US MPs Sabrina D. Harman [05 Jan 1978~] and Charles A. Graner Jr. [1968~] are separately photographed gloating over the corpse. On 16 January 2005 Graner would be convicted on many charges related to mistreating prisoners; his sentence would be 10 years in prison. On 16 May 2005, Harman would be convicted on several charges related to mistreatment of prisoners in general; her sentence would be 6 months in prison. — (051028) 2002 Two Israeli immigrants from Argentina: security guard Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of Kfar Sava; and Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra'anana; and Palestinian suicide bomber Nabil Sawalha, 20, who detonates his 10 kg of explosives while struggling with the guard who shouted a warning and stopped him from entering Shekem electronics store at the Arim open-air shopping mall in Tel Aviv suburb Kfar Sava, in the evening. 19 persons are injured. 2002 Hamad Sadder and a companion, by remote control bomb hidden in their car, in Nablus, West Bank. Sadder was a member of the Hamas military wing targeted by Israel. His nephew, Mohammed Bustami carried out a suicide attack the previous week (27 Oct 02 Nov) that killed three Israeli soldiers in a West Bank settlement. 2001 Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16 [< photo], and Menashe Regev 14 [photo >], Israelis; and the Islamic Jihad militant who shoots up a bus in the French Hill section of Jerusalem, who is in turn killed by a civilian who empties a clip of ammunition at him, and then his corpse is riddled with bullets shot by a border police officer and a soldier. [You would think that Israelis would know enough to try and capture terrorists alive so as to extract information.] 2001 Four Indian soldiers and one attacking militant from the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba (some possibly shortly before midnight on 03 November). A group of militants, dressed in Army fatigues, opened fire and lobbed grenades on the main gate of the Indian army camp at Diyalgam, about 60 km from Srinagar, at about 21:00. Two of them managed to sneak inside the camp manned by the troops of 36th Rashtriya Rifles. In the intense gunbattle, lasting over two hours, three jawans [=young soldiers, from a Persian word meaning young man, especially an army private]; were killed and six others injured. One of the jawans later died of injuries. Immediately after the militants intruded into the camp, troops launched a search operation, which was abandoned as the ultras [= militants] were in Army uniform [!!!]. A militant hiding in a shed opened fire and lobbed grenades when the troops approached before endinc their search, and was killed in retaliatory fire. [Is that an Indian army rule: never attack anyone wearing an Indian army uniform, even if it is a disguised enemy firing at you; just run away?] 2000 Hani Noaman al-Sabbouhi,18, in Mansoura, Egypt hospital from three bullet wounds to the head, after police fired on crowd of villagers to prevent them from voting in the legislative elections, part of the government's effort to prevent the election of candidates of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (running as independents). 1996 José Botero Henao, Catholic pastor of Venecia ( Cundinamarca ), Colombia, murdered by unidentified assailants.
1986 Kurt Hirsch, mathematician.
1968 Michel Kikoïne, French artist born on 31 May 1892. MORE ON KIKOÏNE AT ART 4 MAY with links to images. 1926 Albin Egger-Lienz, Austrian painter born on 29 January 1868. 1921 Takashi Hara, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (29Sep1918-04Nov1921), born on 09 February 1856 in Iwate Prefecture. 1870 Carl von Sales, Austrian artist born on 05 November 1791. 1856 Hippolyte “Paul” Delaroche, French Academic painter born on 17 July 1797. MORE ON DELAROCHE AT ART 4 JULY with links to images. 1709 Barend Graat), Amsterdam painter and draftsman born on 28 (21?) September 1628. 1698 Bartholin, mathematician. 1652 La Faille, mathematician. |
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, controversial photographer LINKS 1946 UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed 1923 Alfred Heineken (beer mogul: Heineken Brewery) 1909 Ciro Alegria Peru, novelist (Golden Serpent)
1873 George Edward Moore, influential English Realist philosopher (Principia Ethica, 1903; Ethics, 1912). He died on 24 October 1958. MOORE ONLINE: The Nature of Moral Philosophy The Refutation of Idealism 1873 The gold crown for teeth, patented by dentist John Beers of San Francisco 1872 Ulisse Caputo, Italian artist who died on 13 October 1948. 1862 Eden Phillpotts England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) 1862 Gatling gun is patented by Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling MD [12 Sep 1818 – 26 Feb 1903]. It is a cluster of several barrels, each of which, when rotated by a crank, is loaded and fired once during a complete rotation. The barrels were loaded by gravity from the cartridge container, located above the gun. An improved 10-barrel, .30-caliber model, which fired 400 rounds a minute, was patented on 09 May 1865, and was officially adopted by the US Army on 21 August 1866. For more than 40 years, the Gatling gun, further improved to fire 3000 rounds per minute if externally powered, was used by almost every world power, until superseded by recoil- and gas-operated guns that followed the invention of smokeless gunpowder 1793 (03 Nov?) Thomas Ender, Austrian painter active in Brazil. The end of Ender came on 28 September 1875. 1765 Pierre Girard, mathematician. 1744 Johann(III) Bernoulli, mathematician. 1590 Gerrit van Honthorst Gherardo della Notte, Dutch painter addicted to night scenes, who died on 27 April 1656. MORE ON VAN HONTHORST AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1577 François-Joseph le Clerc du Tremblay “Père Joseph” “l'Éminence Grise”, French mystic and religious reformer who died on 18 December 1638, . His collaboration with Cardinal de Richelieu [09 Sep 1585 – 04 Dec 1642] (“l'Éminence Rouge”) gave him powers akin to those of a foreign minister, especially during Richelieu's ambitious campaign to finance France's participation in what became known as the Thirty Years' War. In 1599 Joseph joined the Capuchins, a strict branch of the Franciscans (with a gray habit), and devoted himself to prayer, preaching, and the conversion of heretics. While reforming part of Notre-Dame de Fontevrault abbey (near Saumur) into a new order of nuns, he met Richelieu, who in 1611 made him his secretary. Joseph's ambition to convert European Protestants to Roman Catholicism coincided with Richelieu's political plans for French domination of Europe. Thus, Joseph devoted himself to a policy that imposed on Europe the miseries and crimes of the Thirty Years' War. He died hated by his countrymen {and probably others too}."L'éminence grise" a été popularisée par Alexandre Dumas Père [24 Jul 1802 – 05 Dec 1870] dans Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844). 1575 Guido Reni Le Guide, Italian painter who died on 18 August 1642. MORE ON RENI AT ART 4 AUGUST with links to images. |