GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS FRIDAY, November 07, the 309th day of 2014 with 54 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:24 and sunset is @ 4:31. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter & Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy. She preached that faith alone was sufficient for salvation, and therefore that individuals had no need for the church or church law. 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, was first published. 1811 - Tecumsehs (Shawnee chief) band of followers were defeated in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe) by William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory. 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy, founder of The Saint Louis Observer anti-slavery newspaper, was shot to death by a mob while trying to protect his printing shop. 1846 - Zachary Taylor, one of the heroes of the Mexican War, was elected President of the United States of America. 1874 - Harpers Weekly featured a Thomas Nast drawing of an elephant in a cartoon as the symbol of the Republican Party. 1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes was elected 19th President of the United States of America. 1893 - Colorado granted women the right to vote. 1895 - Canadas transcontinental railway was completed. 1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returned from exile and led the Bolshevik Revolution with Leon Trotsky, staging a coup detat of the provisional government in Russia. 1929 - New Yorks Museum of Modern Art opened to the public. 1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge between Seattle and Tacoma, the third-largest suspension bridge in the world, collapsed -- just four months after opening. 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States of America, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. 1950 - The Hawaii Territory ratified a state constitution, though it did not join the Union until 1959. 1954 - Face the Nation had its TV premiere. 1962 - Republican Richard M. Nixon lost the race to be Californias governor and held what he called his last press conference, saying, You wont have Nixon to kick around anymore. 1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city, Cleveland, Ohio. 1972 - Richard M. Nixon won the Presidency of the United States of America with a landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern. 1973 - Congress overrode President Richard Nixons veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executives power to wage war without congressional approval. 1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Canadian Donny Londe, completing his collection of world titles at five different weights. 1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the election for governor in Virginia, making him the first black governor in U.S. history. In New York, former Manhattan borough president David Dinkins, a Democrat, is elected New York Citys first African-American mayor. 2000 - Republican George W. Bush president won over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election, but the results were not finalized for more than a month because of a dispute over votes in Florida. 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first First Lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:27:29 +0000
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