November 4 is day 308 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Pungenday, The Aftermath 16, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.17.9 by the Mayan Long Count
On this day in history:
- On November 4, 1783, Mozart's Symphony No. 36 was performed for the first time. . . - On November 4, 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, discovered that chloroform had anaesthetic properties . - On November 4, 1492, 1922 Howard Carter et. al. found the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb. - On November 4, 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross becames the first female elected as a governor in the United States. Long tme a'comin, as they say. - On November 4, 1952, The US established the NSA to spy on all of us and everybody else too. - On November 4, 1960, Dr Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees create tools, eliminating one claim to human superiority. - On November 4, 1970, Salvador Allende became the first Marxist to be elected president of a Latin American country. The US, of course, could not, would not and did not let this stand unleashing a rain of horror through a reign of terror upon the Chilean populace for having the temerity to elect somebody other than a corporatist toady. This is probably our greatest victory in our war against democracy and or marxist ideologies, easily surpassing Guatemala, Honduras and Brazil but we haven't stopped trying in Venezuela yet and may someday succeed in unleashing unimaginable hell on that poor country far beyond the starvation sanctions we've already placed upon them. - On November 4, 1979, A group of Iranian college students overran the U.S. embassy - CIA H.Q. in Tehran and took 90 hostages. - On November 4, 2008 – Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected President of the US. - - Born this day in: 1884 – Harry Ferguson, engineeer credited with inventing the tractor 1916 – Walter Cronkite, journalist, 1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, scientist and engineer 1926 – Carlos "Patato" Valdes, conga player and composer; inventor of tunable congas 1928 – Larry Bunker, drummer and vibraphonist 1932 – Tommy Makem, singer and songwriter 1940 – Delbert McClinton, singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist 1961 – Edward Knight, composer - - Died this day in: 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, composer, and conductor 1930 – Buddy Bolden, cornet player and bandleader 1959 – Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher; member of the Vienna Circle 1980 – Elsie MacGill, engineer and author; Queen of the Hurricanes 1997 – Richard Hooker, novelist - - Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: King Tut Day National Candy Day Job Action Day National Skeptics Day Use Your Common Sense Day - Common Sense? Really?“Common sense is not so common.” Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.” Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action
“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” Rene Descartes- - - Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-) King Tut Day x YouTube Video - Candy Day x YouTube Video - Job Action Day x YouTube Video - Skeptics Day x YouTube Video - The Birth of the NSA x YouTube Video - Allende x YouTube Video - Carlos "Patato" Valdes x YouTube Video - Larry Bunker x YouTube Video - Tommy Makem x YouTube Video - Delbert McClinton x YouTube Video - Felix Mendelssohn x YouTube Video - Buddy Bolden x YouTube Video - -
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