It’s National Doge Day! Doge is one of the few crypto assets I own. It’s also All Souls Day and National Men Make Dinner Day. My husband usually makes dinner because he is a chef.
Now let’s get on to Today’s History!
In Government…
On this day in 1783, General George Washington said goodbye to his troops after the American Revolutionary War. He would go on to become the first President of the newly formed Republic.
The first week of November is historically significant for elections, which must be held on the first Tuesday of November per the US Constitution. We see several presidents elected today, along with some other notable folks:
1852: 14th President Franklin Pierce (D)
1880: 20th President James A. Garfield (R)
1948: 33rd President Harry Truman (D)
1954: Party Switcher Strom Thurmond (D,Di,R)
1976: 39th President Jimmy Carter (D)
1993:America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R)
2004: 43th President George W. Bush (R)
It’s also a day of US expansion, as North Dakota became the 39th state and South Dakota became the 40th state in 1889. In 1966, the Cuban Adjustment Act went into effect, allowing 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent US residence.
Moving to world history, it was not just a day of US expansion but also across the globe. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration proclaimed support for a Jewish state in Palestine. Then on the anniversary in 1955, David Ben-Gurion formed the first modern Israeli government.
In Great Britain, the annexation of Cyprus occurred in 1914 and, on the same day in the same year, the crown declared the entire North Sea a military area. Still in the same year, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. 1914 was rough.
The Asia Pacific theater heated up in 1963 when Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm was overthrown and assassinated by the South Vietnamese Army.
Finally, in 2017, 45th President Donald Trump nominated Jerome Powell to be the Chair of the Federal Reserve.
In Culture…
The US got spirit, yes it did, in 1898 when Cheerleading became a thing after Johnny Campbell led the University of Minnesota football crowd in the first known US cheers.
Nine years later in 1907, US banker J. P. Morgan locked 40+ bankers in his library — which sounds like a hostage crisis — in an effort to force them to avert banking crisis. Could anyone other than JPM get away with a hostage crisis?
In 1947, Howard Hughes flew a huge wooden airplane called the "Spruce Goose" — for the first and last time. That sounds ominous, but he didn’t die. It was apparently too expensive and with no military application, it couldn’t be justified. On the same day in 1992, the Airbus A330 took its first flight. You know how we feel about air travel on this show – what’s the safety record?
Three years later in 1950, the Clover Dairy Company test-marketed the first concentrated milk in the US. I wonder if the first crew on the International Space Station had this kind of milk when they allegedly arrived on this day in 2000.
In entertainment:
1973: "Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments" Premiered on CBS
1979: Studio 54 Owners Arrested for Tax Evasion
1987: George Harrison and Paul McCartney released dueling albums.
2006: Shakira became the first female artist to win Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year at the 7th Latin Grammy Awards.
Finally, on the darker side of culture, in 1984 Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed since 1962, and in 1988, the DOD was hacked. Also in ‘88, a Mexican radio station reported that Mike Tyson died in a car crash. He didn’t. He is still alive.
In Death & Destruction…
1648: 12,000 Jews massacred in Narol Podlia
1974: 78 killed in Time Go-Go Club fire in Seoul
1997: 208 killed in Typhoon Linda in southern Vietnam
2014: 60 killed and 110 injured by a suicide bomber in Pakistan
2018: 13 killed by a tiger — tiger shot dead
2020: Baby Shark gets over over 7.04B views
2020: 22 killed when Gunmen storm Kabul University in Afghanistan
2021: 69 killed by Jihadist gunman in south-west Niger
Today’s Birthdays…
1734: Daniel Boone (Frontiersman)
1755: Marie Antoinette (Gluten Intolerant)
1795: James Polk (11th President)
1865: Warren G Harding (29th President)
1952: Larry Fink (Blackrock)
1966: David Schwimmer (Actress)
1974: Nelly (Musician)
Deaths Today…
1941: Simon Guggenheim (Natural Causes)
1950: George Bernard Shaw (Natural Causes)
1980: Willie Sutton “The Gentleman Bank Robber” (Natural Causes)
2004: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (Natural Causes)
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