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 Today's
highlight in history:
On Nov. 5, 1911, aviator Calbraith P. Rodgers arrived in Pasadena,
Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49
days.
On this date:
In 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before
he could blow up the English Parliament.
In 1811, El Salvador gave its "First Shout of Independence" against
Spanish rule.
In 1911, singing cowboy star Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third
term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L.
Willkie.
In 1968, Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate
George C. Wallace.
In 1974,
Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming 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 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane (meh-EER' kah-HAH'-nuh), the
Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, was shot to death at a New York
hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair (el sah-EED' no-sah-EER')
was convicted of the slaying in federal court.)
In 1991, death claimed publishing magnate Robert Maxwell at age 68
and actor Fred MacMurray at age 83.
In 2009, a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left
13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged
with premeditated murder and attempted murder.
Ten years
ago: Hurricane Michelle swept past the Bahamas with 85
mile-an-hour winds, flooding houses and cutting power. Roy Boulting,
who with his late twin brother, John, produced some of postwar
Britain's most enduring films, died in Eynsham, England, at age 87.
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Five years ago: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by
the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. Saying
that he was a "deceiver and liar" who had given in to his dark side,
the Rev. Ted Haggard confessed to sexual immorality in a letter read
from the pulpit of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Rockwall County, Texas, prosecutor Louis "Bill" Conradt Jr. killed
himself as police tried to serve him with an arrest warrant alleging
he'd solicited sex with a minor online. Marilson Gomes dos Santos of
Brazil became the first South American to win the New York City
Marathon, finishing in 2:09:58; defending champion Jelena Prokopcuka
of Latvia won the women's race in 2:25:05. Former Turkish Prime
Minister Bulent Ecevit (EH'-chee-vit) died in Ankara at age 81.
One year ago: President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle,
boarded Air Force One to fly to Mumbai, India, the first stop of a
10-day tour through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. A judge
in Los Angeles sentenced Johannes Mehserle, a white former transit
officer, to two years in prison in the shooting death of Oscar
Grant, an unarmed black man, on an Oakland train platform; the
minimum sentence provoked angry protests. Cable channel MSNBC
suspended host Keith Olbermann for two shows for making unapproved
political donations. Actress Jill Clayburgh died in Lakeville,
Conn., at age 66.
Today's birthdays: Actor Chris Robinson is 73. Actress Elke
Sommer is 71. Singer Art Garfunkel is 70. Actor-playwright Sam
Shepard is 68. Singer Peter Noone is 64. Actor Nestor Serrano ("24")
is 56. Actress-comedian Mo Gaffney is 53. Actor Robert Patrick is
53. Singer Bryan Adams is 52. Actress Tilda Swinton is 51. Actress
Tatum O'Neal is 48. Actress Andrea McArdle is 48. Rock singer Angelo
Moore (Fishbone) is 46. Actress Judy Reyes is 44. Rock musician Mark
Hunter (James) is 43. Actor Sam Rockwell is 43. Country singers
Jennifer and Heather Kinley (The Kinleys) are 41. Actor Corin Nemec
is 40. Rock musician Jonny (cq) Greenwood (Radiohead) is 40. Country
singer-musician Ryan Adams is 37. Actor Sam Page is 35. Actor Jeremy
Lelliott is 29. Rock musician Kevin Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is
24.
Thought for today: "Imagination is the only key to the
future. Without it none exists -- with it all things are possible."
--
Ida M. Tarbell, American journalist (1857-1944)
[Associated Press]
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