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Today In History - November 1 |
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Featured event for the day:
In the year 79, Pompeii was buried by a Mount Vesuvius eruption… Mount Vesuvius is located east of Naples, Italy. It is a particularly active and nasty volcano. Among other things, it's the only volcano on the European mainland that's erupted within the last century. But its most famous eruption occurred in the year 79, when the fury of the mountain gushed lava and ash – burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum – though Herculaneum is rarely mentioned. This particular eruption is noteworthy from several perspectives including geology, volcanology, and anthropology. The destruction of the city was so swift that it was preserved like a snapshot of the people and their culture. Definitely a topic that's worth a few minutes of research. Mount Vesuvius is considered an extremely dangerous volcano. What gets it on that short list is the fact that there are so many humans living within its realm. Should Mount Vesuvius decide to let rip another eruption similar to the one in 79, millions of people could die. Also, since Mount Vesuvius is on the coast of the Bay of Naples, the negative trade implications are potentially quite serious. Ports could be shut down for years, maybe decades. At the very least, Mount Vesuvius deserves our healthiest respect – and likely a much wider berth than we're currently giving. |
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On This Date in History |
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79 Pompeii is buried by a Mount Vesuvius eruption 1210 King John of England begins imprisoning the Jews 1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel are first exhibited 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy, "Othello" is first presented 1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy, "The Tempest" is first presented 1623 A fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings 1755 A Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 people 1765 The Stamp Act went into effect in the British Colonies 1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano is founded in California 1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants 1787 The first free school in NYC, the African Free School, opens 1800 The first President who lives in the White House: John Adams 1834 The first published reference to "poker," a Mississippi riverboat game 1848 The first US women's medical school opens in Boston 1863 Fortifications are built on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay 1870 The US Weather Bureau begins operations 1894 A vaccine for diphtheria is announced by Dr. Roux of Paris 1918 97 people die in the NYC subway's worst accident 1922 The Ottoman Empire is abolished 1924 The first US NHL franchise, the Boston Bruins, is founded 1932 Wernher von Braun is named head of the German liquid-fuel rocket program 1936 Mussolini describes the alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" 1936 The Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded 1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral 1939 The first animal conceived by artificial insemination, a rabbit, is displayed 1939 The first jet plane, the Heinkel HE178, is demonstrated to the German Air Ministry 1940 The first US air raid shelter 1942 John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of "Negro Digest" 1943 The dim-out ban is lifted in the San Francisco Bay area 1945 The first issue of Ebony magazine is published by John H. Johnson 1946 Charles S. Johnson becomes first black President of Fisk University 1947 The first Aloha Week Parade is held in Hawaii 1947 Race horsing legend Man O' War dies 1947 The UN trusteeship for Nauru is granted to Australia, NZ, and UK 1950 The first negro player in the NBA becomes: Charles Cooper 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House 1951 The first atomic explosion is witnessed by US troops in NM 1951 Jet magazine is founded by John H. Johnson 1952 The first hydrogen device is exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific 1952 Man-made fusion occurred for the first time on Earth 1954 Algeria begins a rebellion against French rule 1954 India takes over the administration of four French Indian settlements 1955 A bomb aboard a United DC-6 kills 44 people above Longmont, Colorado 1956 Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian Union 1956 The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is formed 1956 The Indian states of Punjab, Patiala, and PEPSU merge into Punjab 1959 The first NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask becomes Jacques Plante 1960 The Benelux treaty goes into effect 1962 Greece enters the European Common Market 1963 The revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam starts 1965 The first concert is held at Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco 1965 A trackless trolley plunged into the Nile River drowning 74 people 1970 A discotheque in Grenoble, France burns with all the exits padlocked: 142 people die 1971 The Eisenhower dollar put into circulation 1974 Fire kills 189 people in Sao Paulo Brazil 1979 Federal government made a $1.5 billion loan to financially ailing Chrysler 1979 The tanker Burmah Agate spills 10.7 million gallons of oil off Galveston Bay, Texas: The worst oil spill disaster in US history 1981 The First Class Mail stamp cost is raised from 18¢ to 20¢ 1981 Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain 1982 Gross funny-man Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" 1985 Phil Silvers, of Sergeant Ernie Bilko fame, dies at the age of 73 1987 22,000 people run in the NYC Marathon 1988 Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Geena Davis get married in Las Vegas (it doesn't make it) 1988 The Staten Island ferry gets its first pay phones 1989 The Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many of its flights 1990 The last of Margaret Thatcher's original cabinet resigns 1990 Angry, pre-war rhetoric escalates as President Bush compares Saddam Hussein to Adolph Hitler 1990 Sandra Miller is awarded a whopping $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts 1993 The European Union comes into existence |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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846 Louis II, King of France 1500 Benvenuto Cellini 1607 Georg Philipp Harsdorfer 1618 Johannes Flittner 1666 James Sherard 1731 Theodore-Jean Tarade 1748 Christoph Rheineck 1757 Antonio Canova 1762 Spencer Perceval 1782 Viscount Goderich 1798 Benjamin Lee 1805 Alessandro Nini 1815 Crawford Williamson Long 1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper 1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer 1832 Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen 1835 Godfrey Weitzel 1847 Emma Albani 1871 Stephen Crane 1877 Roger Quilter 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1879 Pal Teleki-von Szek 1880 Alfred L. Wegener 1880 Grantland Rice 1880 Karel Paul van der Mandele 1880 Sholem Asch 1887 Max Trapp 1889 Philip John Noel-Baker 1890 James Barton 1891 Dirk Vollenhoven 1892 Alexander Alekhine 1896 Edmund Blunden 1903 Jean Tardieu 1903 Max Adrian 1904 Laura Laplante 1907 Rio Gebhardt 1907 Terence Tenison Cuneo 1909 Bruno Bjelinski 1914 William "Sabby" Lewis 1915 Carlos A. Nicolaas 1915 Michael Denison 1917 Clarence E Miller 1917 Margaret Taylor Burroughs 1920 James J. Kilpatrick 1921 Ilse Aichinger 1921 Jan Tausinger 1921 John Willard Peterson 1922 George S. Irving 1922 Jeff Richards 1923 Bruce Dooland 1923 Edward A. de Jongh 1923 Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian Author 1928 Leon Hart 1929 Betsy Palmer 1929 Nicholas Mavroules 1934 Aat Veldhoen 1934 Hugh Bidwell 1934 Umberto Agnelli 1934 William James Matthias 1935 Gary J. Player 1937 Bill Anderson 1938 Patrick Buchanan 1939 Barbara Bosson 1941 Joe Louis Caldwell 1941 Johnny Kendall 1941 Robert Foxworth 1942 John M Spratt, Jr. 1942 Larry Flynt 1942 Marcia Wallace 1942 Michael Zaslow 1942 Shere Hite 1944 Keith Emerson 1944 Kinky Friedman 1945 Rick Grech 1947 Anna Stuart 1947 Rolando Garbey 1950 Tony Hymphris 1951 Craig Serjeant 1951 Ronald Bell 1953 Jackie Zeman 1953 Michael Zaslow 1953 N Jan Davis 1954 Ruben Guerrero 1956 Charles Moore 1956 Lyle Lovett 1958 Rachel Ticotin 1959 Eddie MacDonald 1960 Damon Green 1960 Fernando Valenzuela 1961 Kim Krizan 1961 Magne Furuholmen 1961 Paul Jackson 1962 Anthony Kiedis 1962 Kelly Kelland 1962 Maga Furuholmen 1962 Michelle Estill 1962 Robert Willis 1963 Antonella Ella 1963 Brian Forde 1963 Rick Allen 1964 Eddie Williams 1966 Danny Everett 1966 Paul Lewis 1966 Ruud Cabbage 1967 Steve Fritz 1968 Bernard Dafney 1968 Kent Graham 1969 Barron Wortham 1969 Darryl Ashmore 1969 Jill Reeve 1969 Tie Domi 1970 Alla Korot 1970 Dawn Marple 1970 Sherwin Campbell 1971 Keith Whitecotton 1971 Laura Moss 1971 Rob Waldrop 1972 Jenny McCarthy 1973 Aishwarya Rai |
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