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Today In History - November 3 |
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1956 The "Wizard of Oz" is first televised… The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has entertained children (and adults) for over a century. Oddly, not many people are aware that the story and its illustrations are most likely (in fact almost surely) political satire. The book is ripe with allegory and metaphor, and in the initial stage performances, names of then-current world figures were occasionally used. The Cowardly Lion character, played in the movie by Bert Lahr, is said to represent politician William Jennings Bryan, for example. There are some excellent sources for a complete interpretation of this book, which will – no matter the interpretation – always be a favorite among children. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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39 Lucan 1470 Edward V, King of England 1587 Samuel Scheidt 1604 Osman II 1611 Henry Ireton 1656 Georg Reuter 1689 Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner 1718 John Montague (invented the sandwich) 1736 Christian Brunings 1753 August G. Meissner 1753 Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz 1780 Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen 1781 Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank 1793 Stephen Fuller Austin 1794 William Cullen Bryant 1798 Mason James Murray 1801 Karl Baedeker 1801 Vincenzo Bellini 1815 Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu 1816 Jubal Anderson Early 1833 Edward Dorr Tracy 1852 Mutsuhito 1857 Michail V. Aleksejev 1861 Johann Peter Kirsch 1863 Eugene Samuel-Holeman 1867 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg 1872 Paul Panzer 1875 Emils Darzins 1879 Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1880 Edmond Barrett 1880 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri 1897 Karel Salmon 1900 Roger Blunt 1901 Andre Malraux 1901 Leopold III 1903 Walker Evans 1904 Gideon Fagan 1904 Janis Kalnins 1905 Lois Mailou Jones 1905 William Donald Campbell 1907 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn 1907 Joe Turner 1908 Bronko Nagurski 1909 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston 1911 Vladimir Ussachevsky 1912 Alfredo Stroessner 1914 Hallgrimur Helgason 1918 Bob Feller 1919 Bert Freed 1920 Charles Bronson 1922 Earl of Lonsdale 1924 Shirley Chisholm 1925 Dieter Wellershoff 1927 Zbigniew Cybulski 1930 Ken Berry 1930 Lois Smith 1930 Philip M. Crane 1930 William H. Dana 1931 Monica Vitti 1932 Thomas J. Manton 1933 Aneta Corsaut 1933 Jeremy Brett 1933 Louis W. Sullivan 1933 Michael Dukakis 1935 Jeremy Brett 1936 Roy Emerson 1937 Lynn Woolsey 1937 Paula Wayne 1938 Pupi Avati 1939 Terrence McNally 1940 Dieter Acker 1941 Brian Poole 1943 Bert Jansch 1943 Ken Holtzman 1945 Jim Doyle 1946 Doug Simper 1946 Tommy Dee 1948 Lulu (To Sir With Love) 1948 Tom Shales 1949 Larry Holmes 1949 Michael Evans 1949 Roswitha Krause 1951 Azmat Rana 1952 Roseanne Barr 1953 Dennis Miller 1953 Kathy Kinney 1954 Adam Ant 1955 Phil Simms 1958 Andrew Mapple 1958 Sue Daniels 1959 Timothy Patrick Murphy 1960 Karch Kiraly 1961 Kari Michaelsen 1962 Kimberly Evenson 1962 Kym Hampton 1963 Howard Ballard 1963 Stephen Corkin 1964 Brian Young 1965 John Feskens 1965 Maty Monforth 1965 Michael Paul Springer 1966 Todd Reynolds 1966 Tracey Fuchs 1967 Rob Cowie 1968 Antonio Pettigrew 1968 Debbie Rochon 1968 Lee Germon 1968 Paul Quantrill 1969 Jim Mckenzie 1969 Leslie Shepherd 1970 Doug Zmolek 1971 Bob Kronenberg 1971 Colbie Bell 1971 Darrin Hancock 1971 Joan Kenmore 1971 Matthew Lawton 1971 Tricia Carolyn Nosko 1971 William Strong 1972 Chris Shelling 1972 Verl Mitchell 1973 Derrick Alexander 1974 Tariq Abdul Wahad 1975 Darren Sharper 1979 Jamie Duffney |
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On This Date in History |
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644 Kalief Omar I is injured during an assassination attempt 1394 The Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Dominica 1534 English parliament accepts the Act of Supremacy and Henry VIII becomes the church leader 1620 The Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony 1629 The Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague 1640 The English Long Parliament forms 1655 England and France sign military and economic treaties 1676 Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Koprulu as the Turkish Grand Vizier 1679 Panic overruns Europe over the close approach of a comet 1716 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw 1752 Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes an eye operation 1760 Battle at Torgau, Saxony 1762 England and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris 1762 Spain acquires Louisiana 1783 Washington orders the Continental Army to be disbanded 1791 The Battle at Wabash 1794 French troops conquer Maastricht 1796 John Adams is elected president 1813 U.S. troops destroy an Indian village at Talladega, AL 1820 Cuenca Ecuador declares its independence 1839 The first opium war: 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1862 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana 1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun (Gatling Gun) 1863 Battle of Grand Coteau 1867 Battle at Mentana 1868 The first black is elected to Congress 1868 Ulysses Grant wins the presidential election over Horatio Seymour 1871 Henry M. Stanley says his famous line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1874 James Theodore Holly is elected the bishop of Haiti 1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia 1883 U.S. Supreme Court decides that Native Americans can't be Americans 1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out the Chinese by burning their homes and businesses 1886 The Friars of Tilburg arrive on Curaceao 1896 J. H. Hunter patents the portable weighing scales 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon is elected the first female senator 1896 William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan for president 1900 The first U.S. automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City 1903 Colombia grants Panama its independence 1908 William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President, beats William Jennings Bryan 1917 US First Class Mail now costs 3¢ per ounce 1918 The Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves 1918 Poland proclaims its independence from Russia 1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at the Provincetown Theater 1922 The Greek parliament bans Prince Andreas for life 1926 15th party congress CPSU ends, and the 5 year plan begins 1926 Ty Cobb resigns as the Detroit Tigers' manager 1927 Rodgers and Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres 1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 people in Winooski River Valley, VT 1928 Turkey switches from the Arabic to the Roman alphabet 1930 The first vehicular tunnel to a foreign country opens between Detroit and Windsor 1930 The Bank of Italy becomes the Bank of America 1931 The first commercially produced synthetic rubber is manufactured 1934 Dizzy Dean is chosen as the MVP 1935 George II returns to Greece and regains his monarchy 1935 Kitei Son runs world record marathon in 2:26:42 1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon 1941 Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails 1942 The 12th day of the battle at El Alamein 1942 William L. Dawson is elected to Congress from Chicago 1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrender 1944 The pro-German government of Hungary flees 1944 The U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution 1948 Chicago Tribune reports (incorrectly) that "Dewey beats Truman" 1952 Clarence Birdseye markets his frozen peas 1952 Egypt protests the German retribution payments to Israel 1953 The first live, color, coast-to-coast telecast 1954 Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Chemistry Prize 1955 An Alabama woman is bruised by a meteor 1956 The "Wizard of Oz" is first televised 1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests 1960 The "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens – it plays 532 performances before closing 1960 The Ivory Coast adopts constitution 1960 The "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in New York City 1961 The General Assembly unanimously elects U. Thant as the acting Secretary General 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president 1968 Bob Packwood is elected Senator in Oregon 1970 President Nixon promises a gradual troop removal from Vietnam 1973 Good Morning America premieres starring David Hartman and Nancy Dussault 1978 The U.S.S.R. and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty 1979 Five people are mortally wounded during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1979 63 Americans are taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran 1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno, Japan Golf Classic 1979 The Marocco offensive against Polisario 1983 Jesse Jackson launches his first (failed) campaign for presidency 1983 The Nashville Network begins on cable TV 1984 3,000 people die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984 The body of the assassinated Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is cremated 1986 Joaquim Chissano is elected the president Mozambique 1986 The Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals a secret U.S. arms sales to Iran 1988 Pakistan claims it downed an Afghan warplane 1988 Reagan signs the credit-card disclosure bill 1988 The Soviet Union agrees to allow the teaching of Hebrew 1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken on his TV show 1989 Lou Piniella is named the manager of the Reds, replacing recently banned Pete Rose 1990 Gro Harlem Brundtland is installed as the Premier of Norway 1991 The 21st New York City Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan: 2:27 1991 The 22nd New York City Marathon won by Salvador Garcia: 2:09:28 1992 Governor Bill Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election over President Bush 1992 Carol Moseley Brown is elected the first black female in the U.S. Senate 1994 Atlantis 13 is launched 1994 Dutch and British astronomers find the spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994 Susan Smith, who claimed her 2 children were carjacked, is arrested for murder 1994 Total solar eclipse is visible in South America for 4:23 1996 The 26th New York City Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna: 2:28:18 1996 The 27th New York City Marathon won by Giacomo Leone: 2:09:54 1996 Mayumi Hirase wins the LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup 1997 A new California law ends affirmative-action |
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