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November 4th

November 4, 2014 By Robert Simko

SS Pacific

The 19th century steam ship SS Pacific, which in 1875 collided with the Orpheus and sank near Cape Flattery, WA, USA. From a painting commissioned in the ship’s early career. Picture attributed to BC Archives.


1333 – Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1841 – First wagon train arrives in California
1845 – First nationally-observed uniform election day in US
1862 – Dr. Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun
1873 – Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents gold crown
1875 – Passenger Steamship Pacific collides with sailing vessel Orpheus off Cape Flattery Washington, 236 die
1879 – James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
1884 – Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G. Blaine (R) for his first presidential term. He was the only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.
1890 – Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London
1908 – Brooklyn Academy of Music opens
Howard Carter

Howard Carter

1922 – Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1929 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
1939 – First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 – US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II
1940 – Eggs and cake rationed in Netherlands
1963 – John Lennon utters his infamous “rattle your jewelry” line at a Royal Variety Performance in London
1966 – Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1970 – Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Committee
1979 – 500 Iranian students seize US embassy, take 90 hostages for 444 days until…
1980 – Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web
2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded
2012 – Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012

Birthdays

1756 – Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1876 – James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
1879 – Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist and actor (Judge Priest), (d. 1935)

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

1916 – Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph Mo, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
1918 – Art Carney, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton, The Honeymooners)
1937 – Loretta Swit, Passaic NJ, actress (Hotlips Houlihan on M*A*S*H)
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer
1946 – Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady 2001-09
1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1969 – Sean Combs [Puff Daddy], New York City, rapper/record producer (Come to Me, I’ll be Missing You)

Deaths

1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
2008 – Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66
2011 – Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)

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