November 2
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1783 - General George Washington delivered his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton, New Jersey as the Continental Army was officially disbanded.1867 - Harpers Bazaar, “America’s first fashion magazine,” published its inaugural issue.
1889 - North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union; the first time that two states simultaneously became a part of the United States. President Benjamin Harrison had a problem with admitting the two states on the same day. Which one would be first? He decided it was easier to mix up the admissions papers so no one would know and just list the states alphabetically. That’s why North Dakota is the 39th and South Dakota is the 40th of the United States of America. The Dakotas took their name from the Sioux Indian word for ’ally’, although the settlers and the Sioux weren’t always allies (Battle of Wounded Knee). Those searching for a route to the Pacific Ocean settled in South Dakota, Ft. Pierre being the first permanent white settlement. Pierre remains the capital of South Dakota. Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. Both states are still essentially rural and agricultural. The western meadowlark and the ring-necked pheasant, the North and South Dakota state birds, respectively, still fly over the vast meadowlands. North Dakota’s flower is the wild prairie rose, while the pasque flower holds that title in South Dakota. North Dakota, home of several major air bases and intercontinental ballistic missile sites, is known as the Peace Garden State, while its more southern counterpart is called the Coyote State.
1903 - The British newspaper The London Daily Mirror began publishing.
1922 - Regularly scheduled airmail and passenger services from Qantas Airways began in Australia. The company took its name from the original registered title, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1929 - Newsreel Theatre opened. The newsreel films were shown at the Embassy Theatre, 1560 Broadway, between 46th and 47th Streets in New York City. This first all-newsreel theatre in the United States also holds the distinction of being the first, and we might add, only movie theater in the U.S. to have had an all-female management and staff (1925). In 1987, the Embassy Theatre was designated as a city landmark, and in 1998 it became Times Square’s Visitor Center.
1931 - Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time -- on CBS radio. The program centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and the same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original Marge was performed by Vail’s daughter, Donna Fick. Three other performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge continued for 11 years.
1931 - The DuPont Company of Wilmington, DE announced the first synthetic rubber. It was known as DuPrene.
1935 - Notre Dame upset the Buckeyes of Ohio State, 18-13. It was their first meeting. A forward pass by Bill Shakespeare helped the Fighting Irish down Ohio State as some 81,000 fans looked on. Sports scribes called it, “The Game of the Century.”
1937 - I’d Rather Be Right opened in New York City. The humorous play about the U.S. presidency satirized the high office as it related to Franklin Roosevelt.
1942 - The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, began on this day. The British made an assault on Tel el Aqqaqir, and Montgomery defeated Rommel a day or two later.
1943 - The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ended in a U.S. Navy victory over Japan.
1943 - The Jewish ghetto in Riga, Latvia, was destroyed by Nazi forces.
1947 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a speech at a mammoth public meeting in the Lal Chowk (city square in Srinagar), said, “We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the people. That pledge we have given, and the Maharaja has supported it not only to the people of Kashmir but the world. We will not, and cannot back out of it. We are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum held under international auspices like the United Nations. We want it to be a fair and just reference to the people, and we shall accept their verdict.”
1947 - The world’s largest and widest plane ever built - with a wingspan of 319 feet, 11 inches - made its only flight this day. Its pilot, owner, and designer, Howard Hughes, flew the huge, wooden plane over Long Beach Harbor, California at an altitude of 70 feet. The flight lasted just one minute. Hughes named the plane Hercules; but it was referred to by most as the Spruce Goose. The $25 million, 200-ton, plywood behemoth was more like a boat than a plane. Actually a seaplane, it contributed to warplane research over the next decade. The Spruce Goose is now in the Michael King Smith Evergreen Aviation Educational Center near McMinville, Oregon.
1948 - When Harry S Truman went to bed this day, he was losing the election for president of the United States (to Thomas E. Dewey). Chicago Daily Tribune printers were out on strike and getting the newspaper to readers was no simple task. To make a long story short, the editors had to guess at the outcome of the election and picked/printed the wrong person to win. Upon arising the next morning, Truman learned he had won. On a short train stop in St. Louis, he stepped onto the back platform of the train and was presented with one of the newspapers with the infamous headline, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”. It was at that moment that the famous photo of Truman holding up the paper was taken. When asked to comment, Truman said “This is for the books.”
1954 - Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was the first U.S. senator elected by write-in vote.
1955 - The first pop song by Julie London appeared on the charts. London’s smoky and sultry rendition of Cry Me a River stayed on the pop chart for five months, reaching as high as #9. Julie was Mrs. Jack Webb (Dragnet) and Mrs. Bobby Troup (songwriter, trumpeter).
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
1963 - After giving benefit performances for years, singer Kate Smith presented her first full concert performance to a paying crowd -- at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed and replaced by Prince Faisal.
1968 - Another biggie for Stevie Wonder went on sale. For Once in My Life reached #2 on the pop charts on December 28, 1968.
1974 - So Far, the album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks: Deja Vu, Helplessly Hoping, Wooden Ships, Teach Your Children, Ohio, Find the Cost of Freedom, Woodstock, Our House, Helpless, Guinnevere and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
1976 - Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was the first president from the Deep South since 1844. Elected this day, Carter was supported by four out of every five African Americans who voted. He also did well with whites in the South and Americans on low incomes. He quickly made good on election promises to pardon Vietnam War draft evaders and to end the production of the expensive B-1 bomber. Carter also set out to limit aid to those governments guilty of human rights violations.
1978 - John J. Riccardo, Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, hired Lee A. Iacocca as Chrysler President. Ten months later, Riccardo resigned and Iacocca was elected Chairman (September 20, 1979).
1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a U.S. federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1985 - For only the second time, a TV soundtrack LP topped the album charts. Miami Vice (title track by Jan Hammer) enjoyed a run of eleven weeks. The only other TV soundtrack LP to chart at #1 was Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn in 1959. The remainder of the top-five albums of the week: 2)-Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; 3)-Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston; 4)-Scarecrow by John Cougar Mellencamp; 5)-Songs from the Big Chair by Tears For Fears.
1986 - A record price for a poison apple was paid in New York City. The 12-by-16-inch celluloid, from Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was purchased for $30,800.
1990 - The Prince film, Graffiti Bridge opened. Prince starred in the flick, wrote and directed it.
1991 - Karyn White’s Romantic hit #1 for one week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
1992 - American movie producer Hal Roach died in Los Angeles. He was 100 years old.
1993 - Wildfires in Southern California pushed through areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, burning 35,000 acres and 200 homes.
1993 - Rudolph Giuliani was elected as the 107th mayor of New York City, defeating David Dinkins. Giuliani was the first Republican mayor in two decades.
1994 - In Durunka, Egypt, more than 475 people were killed when fuel carried by floodwaters ignited ignited three diesel and aircraft fuel tanks (by lightning), turning a neighborhood into an inferno.
1994 - In Durunka, Egypt, more than 475 people were killed when a lightning strike ignited three diesel and aircraft fuel tanks belonging to the Egyptian Army strategic reserve -- turning a neighborhood into an inferno.
1998 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates appeared at his company’s antitrust trial. Gates gave a videotaped statement that was played in a federal courtroom in Washington DC.
2000 - An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of the international space station. Sergei Krikalev, Yuri Gidzenko and Bill Shepherd christened their new home Alpha.
2001 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Domestic Disturbance, starring John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Matthew O’Leary’s and Steve Buscemi; Monsters, Inc., starring John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, John Ratzenberger, Frank Oz, Bonnie Hunt and Bob Peterson; and The One, with Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino.
2002 - A powerful (up to magnitude 7.7) earthquake struck near Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The quake killed two people, injured some forty and left more than 5,000 people homeless.
2003 - The U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated V. Gene Robinson as bishop in New Hampshire. He was the first openly gay man to rise to bishop in any of the world’s major Christian bodies.
2003 - The New York City Marathon was won by Martin Lel of Kenya in a time of 2:10:30. Margaret Okayo of Kenya won the women’s title, setting a course record of 2:22:31.
2004 - The U.S. presidential election was won by incumbent Republican President George Bush (II), who defeated Democratic Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry. The squeaky-close election hinged on the state of Ohio, where at midday the day after, Kerry conceded that he had lost the state, and the election along with it.
2005 - The Washington Post reported that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) had been operating a covert network of prisons for terrorist suspects. The ‘black site’ prisons were located eight foreign countries (Afghanistan, Thailand and several Eastern European democracies) and had been running for four years, with little or no oversight from the U.S. Congress.
2006 - Jackson Pollock’s ‘splatter’ painting No. 5 1948 was sold for $140 million -- by entertainment mogul David Geffen to Mexican financier David Martinez. Pollock’s painting system was to dribble paint on to a bare board laid on the floor of his studio.
2006 - NASA lost contact with the Mars Global Surveyor following a successful 10-year mapping mission on Mars. Investigators in 2007 said a command sent to a wrong computer address caused a cascade of events that led to loss of power.
2007 - New movies in the U.S.: American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, Common, TI, RZA, Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Yul Vazquez and Roger Bart; the animated Bee Movie, featuring the voices of Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Alan Arkin, Kathy Bates, Robert Duvall, Eric Idle, Larry King, William H. Macy, Tim Blake Nelson, Uma Thurman, Patrick Warburton, Oprah Winfrey and Matthew Broderick; and Martian Child, with John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Bobby Coleman, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt and Bobby Coleman.
2007 - Rescuers in boats and helicopters worked to evacuate 300,000 victims stranded by a flood Mexican President Felipe Calderon called “one of the worst natural disasters” to hit Mexico. A week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, leaving 70 percent of the Gulf state of Tabasco underwater. Governor Andres Granier estimated the damage at $5 billion.
2008 - The Moroccan government banned an issue of the French magazine L’Express, claiming it insulted Islam in articles exploring the relationship between that religion and Christianity.
2008 - Paula Radcliffe defended her title in the New York City Marathon to become the second woman to win the race three times. And Marilson Gomes dos Santos of Brazil won the men’s race for the second time in three years.
2009 - Tropical Storm Mirinae slammed into Vietnam’s central coast with heavy rains and winds. The big blow killed 98 people in Vietnam, two in Cambodia and 19 in the Philippines.
2009 - The International Monetary Fund said it sold 200 metric tons of gold worth $6.7 billion to India’s central bank as part of an effort to shore up IMF finances and increase low-cost lending to developing countries. The purchase put gold at 6% of India’s reserves and helped push the price of gold to over $1,100 a troy ounce.
2009 - The new U.S. Navy assault ship New York arrived at Pier 88. The 684 foot, $1-billion ship was built with 7½ tons of steel in its hull from the World Trade Center.
2010 - U.S. mid-term elections gave the Republicans 63 new House seats with a gain of six seats in the U.S. Senate. Tea party favorites Paul in Kentucky, Mike Lee in Utah and Marco Rubio in Florida were among the winners. Nevada Senate (Democratic) Majority Leader Harry Reid did manage to keep his seat.
2010 - San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that allowed toys to be given away with kids’ restaurant meals only if the meal contained less than 600 calories, included fruits and vegetables, plus beverages without excessive fat or sugar.
2012 - Films debuting in the U.S. on this day: Flight, starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, James Badge Dale, Bruce Greenwood, Melissa Leo, Nadine Velazquez, Garcelle Beauvais and Tamara Tunie; The Man with the Iron Fists, with Jamie Chung, Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, RZA, Dave Bautista, Pam Grier and Zhu Zhu; the animated Wreck-It Ralph, featuring the voices of John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Adam Caroll, Jamie Elman, Rachael Harris and Dennis Haysbert; This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon, Harry Dean Stanton, Joyce Van Patten and David Byrne; The Bay, with Kristen Connolly, Jane McNeill, Christopher Denham, Michael Beasley, Kether Donohue, Anthony Reynolds and John Harrington Bland; The Details, starring Elizabeth Banks, Kerry Washington, Tobey Maguire, Ray Liotta, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert and Sam Trammell; Vamps, starring Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Dan Stevens, Richard Lewis, Sigourney Weaver, Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk and Malcolm McDowell; and Midnight’s Children, with Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy and Siddharth.
2012 - Frustration grew for residents of Northeast U.S. states hit by Hurricane Sandy. The death toll reached 102, millions were still without power and tempers frayed because of a lack of fuel.
2013 - 54-year-old Theodore Wafer of Dearborn Heights (Detroit), Michigan shot and killed 19-year-old Renisha McBride, a black woman, after she knocked his door following a car crash. Wafer opened his front door and fired a shotgun blast through a screen door, hitting McBride in her face. On Aug 7, 2014, he was convicted of 2nd degree murder. On Sep 3, 2014 he was sent to prison for at least 17 years.
2014 - China’s state media reported the country had successfully tested a laser defense system against small-scale, low-altitude drones.
2015 - A French fisherman was among eight people arrested on suspicion of helping migrants cross the Channel to Britain. The fisherman had been smuggling migrants into Britain "for several months" on an inflatable Zodiac boat that could hold some 20 people.
2015 - China and France agreed to push for long-term monitoring of a U.N. accord to combat climate change by reviewing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions every five years.
2016 - Moscow declared a 10-hour humanitarian truce in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia seeks “honest cooperation” for a political solution in Syria -- “the sooner the better.”
2016 - The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908 with a 10-inning, 8-7 win over the Cleveland Indians in Game 7. The game was played in Cleveland, but an hour after it ended, there were still thousands of people in the Chicago ballpark neighborhood, known as Wrigleyville, and there were still fireworks exploding every few minutes. The Cubs had blown a three-run lead four outs from victory, forged ahead in the 10th inning on RBI hits from Ben Zobrist and Miguel Montero, and then needed two pitchers to survive the bottom of the inning — Mike Montgomery inducing a groundout from Michael Martinez to finally end it.
2017 - The Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in a decade. This, to contain an increase in inflation stoked by the Brexit vote.
2017 - Actor, director, producer Kevin Spacey faced allegations of sexual harassment, with a man who wished to remain anonymous saying Spacey attempted to rape him when he was 14 years old. And the Old Vic theatre was accused of ‘pleading ignorance’ to the inappropriate sexual behaviour by Kevin Spacey during his 11-year reign as its artistic director.
2018 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: Bohemian Rhapsody, with Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello; Nobody’s Fool, starring Tiffany Haddish, Missi Pyle and Courtney Henggeler; The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, starring Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren; Suspiria, with Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton and Doris Hick; Bodied, with Calum Worthy, Jackie Long and Rory Uphold; Boy Erased, starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Joel Edgerton; The Other Side of the Wind, with John Huston, Robert Random and Peter Bogdanovich; Prospect, starring Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal and Jay Duplass; and Time Trap, with Andrew Wilson, Cassidy Gifford and Brianne Howey.
2018 - Turkey lifted sanctions on the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General, minutes after POTUS Trump removed two Turkish ministers from the U.S. sanctions list.
2019 - The British government imposed a moratorium on fracking, saying the controversial gas extraction technique risked causing too much disruption to local communities through earth tremors.
2019 - China granted conditional approval to its first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The move pointed the way to revived opportunities in a therapeutic area where drug makers had burned billions of dollars without yielding a validated new drug. Oligomannate, which used extract from marine brown algae as raw material, received a conditional green light to treat mild-to-moderate level Alzheimer’s.
2020 - Actor Johnny Depp lost his court case against a British newspaper that had called him a “wife beater”. "The Sun" claimed there was “overwhelming evidence” that Depp had assaulted his actress/wife Amber Heard repeatedly during their marriage.
2020 - U.S. mall operators CBL and Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust filed for bankruptcy, but said their malls would remain open. Mall owners had been pressured by the COVID-19 pandemic, with their tenants not paying rent, and dozens of retailers and restaurants filing for bankruptcy protection.
2021 - Voters in Minneapolis, MN rejected a ballot measure that would have replaced the city’s police department with a Department of Public Safety.
2021 - The Atlanta Braves won the World Series for the first time since 1995, beating the Houston Astros, 7-0, in Game 6.
2022 - President Biden warned that U.S democracy was under threat as former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about election fraud fueled voter intimidation and “election deniers” ahead of next week’s midterm elections. “In our bones, we know democracy is at risk.” Biden said in a primetime TV address. His speech amounted to a closing argument for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
2022 - Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2018 massacre of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Broward County, Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told victims and their relatives she admired their strength, and promised that the victims “will not be forgotten.”
2023 - Russia launched its most extensive artillery attack of the year in Ukraine. But Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s commander in chief, said the war had reached a deadlock.
2023 - A storm called Ciarán battered Northern Europe and Southern England with hurricane force winds. In France, 1.2 million people were left without power. Winds of over 120 kph (75 mph), and gusts of more than 200 kph (124 mph) hit the northwest department of Finistère, according to the country’s meteorological agency Meteo-France.
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Birthdays on This Day November 2
1734 - Daniel Boone
frontiersman, explorer; captured and adopted by Shawnee Indians as Big Turtle; captured by British; died Sep 26, 18201755 - Marie Antoinette
Queen of France [1774-1793]; executed by guillotine Oct 16, 17931795 - James Polk
11th U.S. President [1845-1849]; Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Congress; married to Sandra Childress [no children]; nickname: Young Hickory; died June 15, 18491815 - George Boole
mathematician: invented Boolean logic, the basis of modern digital computer logic; died Dec 8, 18641865 - Warren G. Harding
29th U.S. President [1921-1923]; former newspaperman and senator from Ohio; first president to speak on radio; married to Florence De Wolfe [no children]; died Aug 2, 19231901 - Paul Ford
actor: The Phil Silvers Show, Love, American Style, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Music Man, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; died Apr 12, 19761903 - Travis Jackson
Baseball Hall of Famer [shortstop]: New York Giants: four World Series Championships; career .291 batting average with six .300+ seasons; died July 27, 19871911 - Johnny Richards
arranger, composer: Young at Heart, Waltz, Anyone?, Dimples, Turn Aboot, Alone Together, The Way You Look Tonight; died Oct 7, 19681913 - Harry Babbitt
singer: group: Kay Kyser band: Sleep Baby Sleep [In Your Jeep], A Rookie and His Rhythm, I Dug a Ditch, Just Plain Lonesome, Got the Moon in My Pocket, Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes; died Apr 9, 20041913 - Burt Lancaster
Academy Award-winning actor: Elmer Gantry, [1960]; Trapeze, From Here to Eternity, The Bird Man of Alcatraz, The Unforgiven, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams, The Phantom of the Opera, The Rainmaker, The Rose Tattoo, Scorpio, Tough Guys, Airport, Come Back Little Sheba, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg; circus acrobat; died Oct 20, 19941914 - Johnny Vander Meer
‘Double No-Hit’, ‘The Dutch Master’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [only pitcher w/two consecutive no-hitters [1937]/all-star: 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943/World Series: 1940], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; died Oct 6, 19971914 - Ray Walston
Emmy Award-winning actor: Picket Fences [1995-96]; My Favorite Martian, Fast Times, Silver Spoons, Damn Yankees, South Pacific, The Apartment, Of Mice and Men, Popeye, Silver Streak, The Sting; died Jan 1, 20011916 - Al Campanis
baseball executive: Gen Mgr: Los Angeles Dodgers [1968-1987]; died Jun 21, 19981917 - Ann Rutherford
actress: Andy Hardy series, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Gone with the Wind; TV panelist: Leave It to the Girls; died Jun 11, 20121919 - Warren Stevens
actor: Forbidden Planet, The Barefoot Contessa, The Frogmen, Phone Call from a Stranger, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, Gorilla at Large, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers; died Mar 27, 20121926 - Charlie Walker
singer: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down, Don’t Squeeze My Sharmon, Only You, Only You, Wild as a Wildcat; died Sep 12, 20081934 - Ken ‘Muscles’ Rosewall
International Tennis Hall of Famer: #1 player in the world for four consecutive years in the early 1960s and runner-up for another six years; multiple winner: Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon; more1937 - Earl ‘Speedoo’ Carroll
singer: groups: Carnations; Cadillacs: Speedoo, Peek-A-Boo; Coasters: Let’s Go Get Stoned; died Nov 25, 20121938 - Jay Black
singer: group: Jay and The Americans: Only in America, Come a Little Bit Closer, This Magic Moment; died Oct 22, 20211938 - Pat Buchanan
U.S. conservative TV commentator
1940 - Jim Bakken
football: St. Louis Cardinals kicker: holds NFL Individual record: filed goals kicked in a game [7: 9/24/67]1941 - Brian Poole
singer: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes: Twist & Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone Someone1941 - Dave Stockton
golf champ: 25 pro victories [PGA Tour: 10, Champions Tour: 14, Other: 1])1941 - Bruce Welch
musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper1942 - Shere Hite
author: The Hite Report, Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women, A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality; died Sep 9, 20201942 - Stefanie Powers
actress: Hart to Hart, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Feather and Father Gang, McClintock!, Die! Die! My Darling, Herbie Rides Again, The Interns1944 - Bernie Bickerstaff
basketball: NBA coach: Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats; assistant coach: Chicago Bulls1944 - Keith Emerson
musician: keyboards: groups: Emerson, Lake & Powell; Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; solo Tonk Train Blues; film scores: The Inferno, Nighthawks; died Mar 11, 20161945 - Larry Little
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins; career five pro bowls1947 - Dave Pegg
musician: guitar: group: Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath, Sweet Dream, The Witch’s Promise, A New Day Yesterday1952 - Maxine Nightingale
singer: Lead Me On; actress: Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell; Right Back Where We Started From1952 - Alfre Woodard
actress: Desperate Housewives, St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Hill Street Blues, The Practice, Star Trek: First Contact, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Beauty Shop1961 - Janet Gunn
actress: Dark Justice, Getting There, Inferno, The Nurse, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, The Quest, Night of the Running Man, Silk Stalkings1961 - K.D. Lang
singer: LPs: Angel with a Lariat, Shadowland, Absolute Torch and Twang, Ingenue, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, All You Can Eat, Drag, Invincible Summer, Live by Request1963 - Bobby Dall (Robert Harry Kuykendall)
musician: guitar: group: poison: Every Rose Has It’s Thorn, Something to Believe In, Fallen Angel, Ride the Wind, Talk Dirty to Me, Nothing But a Good Time, Stand1964 - Kevin Gogan
football [guard]: Univ of Washington; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, Miami Dolphins, San Diego Chargers1964 - Lauren Vélez
actress: Dexter, New York Undercover, Oz, Ugly Betty, Breakout Kings, Numb3rs, Medium, Strong Medicine1966 - David Schwimmer
actor: Friends, The Wonder Years, Breast Men, Band of Brothers1969 - Dwayne Gordon
football [linebacker]: Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, New York Jets1972 - Samantha Janus
actress: Strange, Dead Man’s Cards, Short, Cinderella, Imogen’s Face, Up ’n’ Under, The Grimleys, A Murder of Quality1973 - Ben Graham
football [punter]: New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals1973 - Marisol Nichols
actress: 24, The Gates, GCB, Felon, Struck, The Road Home; more1973 - Jason Smith
hockey: New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers1974 - Orlando Cabrera
baseball: Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, LA Angels1974 - Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.)
rapper: Hot in Herre, Shake Ya Tailfeather, Stick Out Ya Wrist, Ride Wit Me, Where the Party At?, Dilemma; more1976 - Matt Cullen
hockey [center]; NHL: Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Rangers1976 - Sidney Ponson
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants1977 - Jason Cerbone
actor: The Sopranos, Deepwater, Brando From the Neck Down, Shade, Paper Soldiers, Collision Course, Third Watch1977 - Rodney Buford
basketball [guard]: Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, New Jersey Nets1979 - Erika Flores
actress: Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Secret, Soul of the Game, Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, Switched at Birth, Kaleidoscope1980 - Vanessa Ray
actress: Blue Bloods, As the World Turns, Suits, Pretty Little Liars, Damages, The Last Day of August, The Right Not to Know1981 - James Hahn
golf champ: PGA: 2015 Northern Trust Open; 2016 Wells Fargo Championship1981 - Katharine Isabelle
actress: Ginger Snaps film series, Freddy vs. Jason, American Mary, Another Cinderella Story, The Englishman’s Boy, Endgame, Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts, Hannibal, Rookie Blue1981 - Roddy White
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Alabama at Birmingham; NFL: Atlanta Falcons [2005–2015]1985 - Danny Amendola
football [receiver]: NFL: St. Louis Rams [2009–2012]; New England Patriots [2013-2017]: Super Bowl XLIX champs, Super Bowl LI champs; Miami Dolphins [2018]; Detroit Lions [2019–2020]; Houston Texans ([2021])1989 - Katelyn Tarver
actress: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Big Time Rush, No Ordinary Family; singer: Wonderful Crazy, A Little More Free1991 - Jimmy Garoppolo
football [quarterback]: NFL: New England Patriots [2014-2017]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs, 2017 Super Bowl LI champs; San Francisco 49ers [2017–2022]: 2020 Super Bowl LIV; Las Vegas Raiders [2023– ]1995 - Brandon Soo Hoo
actor: Tropic Thunder, GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra, Supah Ninjas, Workaholics
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Hit Music on This Day November 2
1952You Belong to Me (facts) - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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