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Friday, November 07, 2008

DAILY CHUCKLE 8-312

"Let's all be careful out there!"

Thursday, November 06, 2008

NOVEMBER 6TH

Today is Thursday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2008.
There are 55 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

On this date:

In 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term of office.
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland with enough electoral votes, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
In 1900, President McKinley was re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
In 1906, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
In 1928, in a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building.
In 1944, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.
In 1956, President Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
In 1976, Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.
In 1977, 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College in Georgia.

Ten years ago:

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., announced he would not run for re-election in 2000.
Two suicide bombers were killed when they set off blasts in a crowded open-air market in Jerusalem, injuring a couple of dozen bystanders.

Five years ago:

President Bush signed an $87.5 billion package approved by Congress for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Federal judges in New York and California blocked a new ban on certain late-term abortions, a day after President Bush signed it into law.
The U.S. Mint unveiled the new nickel.

One year ago:

2007 became the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq, with at least 853 military deaths.
Six lawmakers were killed by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan during a visit to a sugar factory; 61 students also died as a result of the bombing and shots fired by guards.
Country singer Hank Thompson died in Keller, Texas, at age 82.
George Osmond, father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group The Osmond Brothers, died in Provo, Utah, at age 90.

Today's Birthdays:

Director Mike Nichols is 77.
Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 76.
Singer Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five) is 71.
Singer P.J. Proby is 70.
Country singer Guy Clark is 67.
Actress Sally Field is 62.
Pop singer-musician Glenn Frey (The Eagles) is 60.
Singer Rory Block is 59.
Jazz musician Arturo Sandoval is 59.
TV host Catherine Crier is 54.
California's first lady, broadcast journalist Maria Shriver, is 53.
Actress Lori Singer is 51.
Actor Lance Kerwin is 48.
Rock musician Paul Brindley (The Sundays) is 45.
Rock singer Corey Glover is 44.
Actor Peter DeLuise is 42.
Actress Kelly Rutherford is 40.
Actor Ethan Hawke is 38.
Actress Thandie Newton is 36.
Model-actress Rebecca Romijn is 36.
Actress Zoe McLellan is 34.
Actress Nicole Dubuc is 30.
Actress Mercedes Kastner is 19.

Thought for Today:

"No one is so eager to gain new experience as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones."
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Austrian writer (1830-1916).

"Let's all be careful out there!"

DAILY CHUCKLE 8-311

"Let's all be careful out there!"

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

NOVEMBER 5TH

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2008.
There are 56 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 5, 1968, Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.

On this date:

In 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to vote for President Grant. (She was convicted by a judge and fined $100, but never paid the fine.)
In 1895, George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an "improved Road Engine."
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft.
In 1940, President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1946, Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
In 1974, Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
In 1985, Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, died at age 90; he was succeeded by Ezra Taft Benson.
In 1987, Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana several times in the 1960s and '70s, calling it a mistake. (Ginsburg ended up withdrawing his nomination.)
In 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, was shot to death at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair was convicted of the slaying in federal court.)

Ten years ago:

The U.N. Security Council unanimously demanded that Iraq resume cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors immediately.

Five years ago:

President Bush signed a bill outlawing the procedure known by its critics as "partial-birth abortion"; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.)
Green River serial killer Gary Leon Ridgway pleaded guilty to strangling four dozen women over two decades, most of them near Seattle.
Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean apologized for urging Democrats to court Southern whites who displayed Confederate flags on their pickup trucks.
Bobby Hatfield of the musical duo the Righteous Brothers died in Kalamazoo, Mich., at age 63.

One year ago:

Hollywood writers went on strike, forcing late-night talk shows to immediately start airing reruns.
Police in major Pakistani cities fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey promised to "clean house" after a dorm matron was accused of abusing students at Winfrey's school for disadvantaged South African girls.
Joe Torre was introduced as the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, less than three weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees.

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