The only easy day was yesterday
Apologies for not getting around to putting any blog entries out for more than 24 hours. It's been an interesting couple of days. Wednesday night I was rear-ended on the 405. What looked like no damage will cost around $1,000 to repair. So now I'm waiting to hear from the other driver, the one at fault, to learn if she's going to pay me directly or go through her insurance. I'm hoping she'll just write the check herself.
Yesterday I had an appointment at the VA right after my morning class. So the plan was, teach the morning session and then head immediately to the appointment. I should have been done in about an hour and then was going to head home to eat and rest for a few hours before teaching the evening class. Mr. Murphy of Murphy's Law had other plans. I did not finish up at the VA, thanks to doctors wanting to run unnecessary tests, until nearly 5 p.m. That meant there was no time to go home and rest. Today I have a sore back and neck and I'm home after 3+ hours of tutoring a student. Fortunately my boss let me skip a meeting because I'm not feeling well, and I have no work commitments again until Sunday afternoon's study hall.
The title of this entry comes from a Navy SEAL aphorism about what their days are like. I'd have never made it as a SEAL, because they are as at home beneath the waves as the rest of us are walking around in the open air. I can do the shooting stuff, and at one point I was in peak physical shape to the point I could have undertaken the required conditioning to reach that level of fitness. But I know I'd have never made it as a SEAL. However I hope none of them will mind my borrowing their aphorism today.
* * *
Hugh Sewell is a 54 year old with a family of three. What he had to do recently tells me there are some serious problems with government programs to benefit those in need. After a prolonged period without a job, he landed work that pays $12 per hour. A far cry from the $25 per hour he'd been earning back in 2010 when he'd first become unemployed, but better than nothing.
Or is it? After doing some calculations, he went to his new boss and asked to have his pay lowered to only $9 per hour. Turns out that at $12 per hour, he would lose some of his government benefits, including Medicaid. That would force him to spend $900 per month that he doesn't have in order to provide health benefits to his family.
In a situation where we want to see people transitioning from the public "safety-net" programs to work that will allow them to become self-supporting, it is the height of foolishness to force people to ask for lower pay, or to just not work so that their standard of living isn't lowered by working instead of being on the dole.
The more I read and the more I see with my own eyes, the more I come to agree with the thesis of Robert Reich in the outstanding documentary film "Inequality for All". Like it or not, the rising disparity in income equity in this nation is bringing harm to the economy as a whole.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Do we have to move the screening process at airports outside of the terminals in order to make them safer?
What did the TSA do to this idiot who shot up LAX, anyway? On a related note, at least the airport area eateries and hotels are doing a booming business until the situation returns to normal at LAX.
Do 83 year old female jewel thieves get Social Security while in jail?
Now that the claim made by local real estate agent Deborah Caravallo that "there's nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act" has been debunked in her individual situation, will she buy the much better policy she can purchase for less than she was paying before?
Should a baseball team be liable when a hot dog thrown by their mascot hits a fan in the stands square in the eye, causing a detached retina? (probably)
My problem with author Orson Scott Card's views on homosexuality have little to do with his stance opposing same-sex marriage, a position he's finally admitted is no longer tenable. The courts made his comments on that subject moot. However, he has never apologized for, or recanted his claims that paraphilia and homosexuality are linked. As long as he maintains that position, I will not see any film based on his works, or read any of those books again (I read Ender's Game when it came out), unaware of his views on LGBT issues at the time.
In the understatement of the last quarter of 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that "U.S. spying went too far." No, really? Sheesh.
Why in the world would anyone want to take a "selfie" while driving?
* * *
November 1st in History:
365 – The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions.
1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1918 – Banat Republic is founded.
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4 with an American victory.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
1946 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Adam Sapieha.
1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1953 – Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital.
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district was joined to Tamilnadu state from Kerala.
1956 – Springhill Mining Disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
Famous Folk Born On November 1st:
Louis the Stammerer of France (love that name)
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain
11th Dalai Lama (wonder if he's the one who played a round of golf with Carl Spackler as his caddy?)
Stephen Crane
Grantland Rice
R. W. B. Lewis
James Kilpatrick (spoofed in "Airplane" as Jack Kirkpatrick saying "Let em crash")
Betsy Palmer
Gary Player
Bill Anderson
Barbara Bosson
Barry Sadler (soldier and singer)
Robert Foxworth
David Foster
Ronald Bell
Lyle Lovett
Charlie Kaufman
Rachel Ticotin
Anthony Kiedis
Sophie B. Hawkins
Toni Collette
Jenny McCarthy
Bo Bice
Movie quotes today come from 2000's "Shaft" because Toni Collette was in that film, albeit briefly:
Peoples Hernandez: This is Egyptian Cotton, motherfucker... two-twenty thread. That's like half your shitty-ass paycheck, okay?
John Shaft: You wouldn't know Egyptian cotton if the Pharaoh himself sent it to you, you knockoff-wearing motherfucker!
#2
Walter Wade, Jr.: Do you know who my father is?
John Shaft: No, do you?
#3
[Trey starts seizing on the gurney]
Walter Wade, Jr.: Homeboy's got rhythm, huh?
John Shaft: What?
[Shaft punches Wade in the face]
Walter Wade, Jr.: What? Was it something I said? I think my nose is broke!
Lt. Kearney: I've been waiting for this. You are gone from this precinct!
John Shaft: For what?
John Shaft: [punches Wade again] For that?
Yesterday I had an appointment at the VA right after my morning class. So the plan was, teach the morning session and then head immediately to the appointment. I should have been done in about an hour and then was going to head home to eat and rest for a few hours before teaching the evening class. Mr. Murphy of Murphy's Law had other plans. I did not finish up at the VA, thanks to doctors wanting to run unnecessary tests, until nearly 5 p.m. That meant there was no time to go home and rest. Today I have a sore back and neck and I'm home after 3+ hours of tutoring a student. Fortunately my boss let me skip a meeting because I'm not feeling well, and I have no work commitments again until Sunday afternoon's study hall.
The title of this entry comes from a Navy SEAL aphorism about what their days are like. I'd have never made it as a SEAL, because they are as at home beneath the waves as the rest of us are walking around in the open air. I can do the shooting stuff, and at one point I was in peak physical shape to the point I could have undertaken the required conditioning to reach that level of fitness. But I know I'd have never made it as a SEAL. However I hope none of them will mind my borrowing their aphorism today.
* * *
Hugh Sewell is a 54 year old with a family of three. What he had to do recently tells me there are some serious problems with government programs to benefit those in need. After a prolonged period without a job, he landed work that pays $12 per hour. A far cry from the $25 per hour he'd been earning back in 2010 when he'd first become unemployed, but better than nothing.
Or is it? After doing some calculations, he went to his new boss and asked to have his pay lowered to only $9 per hour. Turns out that at $12 per hour, he would lose some of his government benefits, including Medicaid. That would force him to spend $900 per month that he doesn't have in order to provide health benefits to his family.
In a situation where we want to see people transitioning from the public "safety-net" programs to work that will allow them to become self-supporting, it is the height of foolishness to force people to ask for lower pay, or to just not work so that their standard of living isn't lowered by working instead of being on the dole.
The more I read and the more I see with my own eyes, the more I come to agree with the thesis of Robert Reich in the outstanding documentary film "Inequality for All". Like it or not, the rising disparity in income equity in this nation is bringing harm to the economy as a whole.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Do we have to move the screening process at airports outside of the terminals in order to make them safer?
What did the TSA do to this idiot who shot up LAX, anyway? On a related note, at least the airport area eateries and hotels are doing a booming business until the situation returns to normal at LAX.
Do 83 year old female jewel thieves get Social Security while in jail?
Now that the claim made by local real estate agent Deborah Caravallo that "there's nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act" has been debunked in her individual situation, will she buy the much better policy she can purchase for less than she was paying before?
Should a baseball team be liable when a hot dog thrown by their mascot hits a fan in the stands square in the eye, causing a detached retina? (probably)
My problem with author Orson Scott Card's views on homosexuality have little to do with his stance opposing same-sex marriage, a position he's finally admitted is no longer tenable. The courts made his comments on that subject moot. However, he has never apologized for, or recanted his claims that paraphilia and homosexuality are linked. As long as he maintains that position, I will not see any film based on his works, or read any of those books again (I read Ender's Game when it came out), unaware of his views on LGBT issues at the time.
In the understatement of the last quarter of 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that "U.S. spying went too far." No, really? Sheesh.
Why in the world would anyone want to take a "selfie" while driving?
* * *
November 1st in History:
365 – The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions.
1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1918 – Banat Republic is founded.
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4 with an American victory.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
1946 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Adam Sapieha.
1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1953 – Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital.
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district was joined to Tamilnadu state from Kerala.
1956 – Springhill Mining Disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
Famous Folk Born On November 1st:
Louis the Stammerer of France (love that name)
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain
11th Dalai Lama (wonder if he's the one who played a round of golf with Carl Spackler as his caddy?)
Stephen Crane
Grantland Rice
R. W. B. Lewis
James Kilpatrick (spoofed in "Airplane" as Jack Kirkpatrick saying "Let em crash")
Betsy Palmer
Gary Player
Bill Anderson
Barbara Bosson
Barry Sadler (soldier and singer)
Robert Foxworth
David Foster
Ronald Bell
Lyle Lovett
Charlie Kaufman
Rachel Ticotin
Anthony Kiedis
Sophie B. Hawkins
Toni Collette
Jenny McCarthy
Bo Bice
Movie quotes today come from 2000's "Shaft" because Toni Collette was in that film, albeit briefly:
Peoples Hernandez: This is Egyptian Cotton, motherfucker... two-twenty thread. That's like half your shitty-ass paycheck, okay?
John Shaft: You wouldn't know Egyptian cotton if the Pharaoh himself sent it to you, you knockoff-wearing motherfucker!
#2
Walter Wade, Jr.: Do you know who my father is?
John Shaft: No, do you?
#3
[Trey starts seizing on the gurney]
Walter Wade, Jr.: Homeboy's got rhythm, huh?
John Shaft: What?
[Shaft punches Wade in the face]
Walter Wade, Jr.: What? Was it something I said? I think my nose is broke!
Lt. Kearney: I've been waiting for this. You are gone from this precinct!
John Shaft: For what?
John Shaft: [punches Wade again] For that?
posted by me at 6:25 PM
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