DID YOU KNOW that on this day in U.S. 1913 U.S.A. First Income Tax Nov. 3rd, 1913 : The first American citizens receive information over the new national income tax. A married man living with his wife, who is in receipt of an income of $5,000 pays $10 a year and if his income is $10,000 he pays $60 per year 1924 U.S.A. Pneumonic Plague Nov. 3rd, 1924 : The death total from Pneumonic plague now stands at 25 in Los Angeles, the area where the deaths have occurred has been sealed and quarantined and health officials now believe a plague of rats in the area have spread the disease and drastic measures will be taken to kill the rats . Poland 1943 World War II Majdanek Concentration camp in Poland Murder of 42,000 in 2 days Nov. 3rd, 1943 : Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival to kill all Jews remaining in the Lublin District of Poland. The operation Erntefest began at dawn when German Nazi SS troops rounded up large numbers of Jews and took them out into nearby trenches and shot and murdered them, it is estimated that in two days 42,000 men, women and children were murdered. 1873 Also On This Day... Selkirk Manitoba – First 150 North West Mounted Police (NWMP) recruits sworn in at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba after arduous overland journey from the east; training begins for their march westward in 1874; recruited by the militia from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 1894 And in Todays Canadian Birthdays... Billy Barker 1894-1930 fighter pilot, was born on this day at Dauphin Manitoba in 1894; died in a plane crash at Rockcliffe Air Base Mar 12, 1930. Barker shot down 53 enemy planes, making him Canada’s Number 1 World War I flying ace, and won the Victoria Cross for a single handed attack against a squadron of 60 German planes.Also Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 explorer, ethnologist, was born on this day at Arnes, Manitoba in 1879 of Icelandic descent; died in Hanover, New Hampshire Aug 26, 1962. Stefansson spent many years exploring the Canadian Arctic from 1906, and adapted himself to Inuit ways of surviving. While commanding the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18, he discovered Borden, Brock, Lougheed and Meighen Islands, but his heavy handed management left him with many official enemies, and he spent the remainder of his career at Dartmouth University in the US. 1644 Quebec Quebec – Martin Prévost marries Manitouabewich; first religious marriage between French-Canadian and an Indian woman; newly married couples given a cow, bull, hog. Jump to: navigation, search Roseanne Barr Barr in Maui at the Hard Rock Cafe in January 2010 Born Roseanne Cherrie Barr November 3, 1952 (age 60) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Residence Big Island, Hawaii, U.S. Occupation Actress, comedian, writer, producer, director Years active 1985–present Spouse(s) Bill Pentland (m. 1974–90) Tom Arnold (m. 1990–94) Ben Thomas (m. 1995–2002) Partner(s) Johnny Argent (2003–present) Children 5 Website roseanneworld Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. she launched her own talk show, The Roseanne Show, which aired from 1998 to 2000. In 2005, she returned to stand-up comedy with a world tour. In 2011, she starred in an unscripted TV show, Roseannes Nuts, that lasted from July to September of that year, about her life on a Hawaiian farm. Barr was born in Salt Lake City, to a working-class Jewish family. She is the oldest of four children born to Helen (née Davis), a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel Jerry Barr, whoworked as a salesmanAustria-Hungary and Lithuania, respectively. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from Borisofsky to Barr upon entering the United States.
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