This Day In History: November 5th
Despite feeling rather like having completed a chain letter, I have provided hereafter the information requested by Mr. Parks, whose sister merits a mention below. I have excluded all election related material as there is quite a bit and it is boring, and instead included only information I find comical, relevant, fictional or downright excessive or destructive. Enjoy.
1530- St. Felix’s Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1556 - Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India. In the battle, Hemu became unconscious when an arrow stuck into his right eye. He was brought as captive to Akbar and was hanged.
1605 The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. He’s actually found sitting on the gunpowder below Parliament. This is a national holiday celebrated with bonfires and burning effigies of Fawkes (pronounced ‘Fox.’).
1862 - Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang. Ironic, no?
1872 In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1913 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.
1916 - The Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
1951 - I Love Lucy airs for the first time.
1955 - Dr. Emmett Brown comes up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor, thus making time travel possible.
1974 Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
1998 A study showed strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings.
1999 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly, saying the software giant’s aggressive actions were ‘’stifling innovation” and hurting consumers.
2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
Birthdays
Will Rogers
Ike Turner
Art Garfunkel
Bill Walton
Bryan Adams
Ryan Adams
Lindsay Parks
PS-Jason Parks owes me a dollar cuz I did this.
PSRPP (PS regarding Previous Post)-Amy, you, and everyone else, can always say ‘biotch’ on my website. It’s a word occuring in the highest forms of performance art. Quote…
Angry Lady: I’m calling the Better Business Bureau.
Michael: Yeah? Well I’m calling the ungrateful Biotch hotline!
PPS-Trent, upon which particular novels is your dislike of Dicken based? I HATED Great Expectations, but A Tale of Two Cities Rocked. I’m just not sure how Bleak House will go in actual book form. Has anybody read it?
May 8th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Its not so much of a dislike as just a neutrality towards him. I don’t feel strongly either way. The story of Tale of Two Cities was very good. It was too long, simply put. Dragged out is more accurate. I don’t mind long books, but the fact that I know that he got paid per chapter and likely drew it out as much as he could just irks me. He could have made it better and more concise. Great Expectations was pretty bad. Christmas Carol was good, and I couldn’t get through David Copperfield. My opinion on him is that he is ok, and there are better authors that I could spend my time on. Like Agatha Christie, there’s an English author for you.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Correct. Christie rocks. Problem is I’ve read every single one of her books. Same with Austen, Sayers and Conan Doyle. Now I’m settling for second bests.
May 8th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Understandable. Well, for second best Dickens is a decent choice. I wish that Jonathon Swift wrote more; he is very clever and I enjoy him a lot. Thomas Hardy isn’t bad either.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am
I can’t handle Thomas Hardy. I liked the movie of The Mayor of Casterbridge, though.
May 9th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I remember Mayor Of C. and Return of the Native being appalingly boring in high school. I’ve read Jude since and tolerated it, although, on the whole, Hardy seems to love a bad ending. And by bad I mean people die, love goes unrequited and all the good things he led you to hope for absolutely fail to occur. So is there a best Hardy novel I’ve yet to read?
May 9th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Haha, no you listed all the ones I liked. I’m a pessimist remember? I liked the endings, a lot. They were unexpected, fresh and different from what I was expecting, although extremely despressing, but depressing isn’t always bad.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide.
Interesting on what you have found. Like it.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Have you ever read The Stranger? That is what I’m reading since I’m done with AP’s and now I can finally read some.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Cah-MOOOO?!?!? Wow. You are an ambitious reader. No indeed, I have never attempted any Camus. How are you liking it?
Jason, sum it up for us. The number one way to kill a Zombie is…
May 17th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Thats how I pronounce his name too. Ha ha. Its really scattered so far. Paragraph to paragraph, I don;t see the connection. Its like a book full of mini-vingettes. I’m not sure if is Cah-moooooo or the translation.
This is the reason I’m excited for AP’s to be over. I can read. Next is Catcher in the Rye for school. (Already read it.) and finishing The Screwtape Letters.
And a good reread of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (one of my favorite books ever) is always needed.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Sounds like TPOBAW is written in the vein of TCITR. I didn’t love the latter, but I read it when I was 16, and pretty much didn’t like any book that didn’t end with Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy finally getting together, leaving me few books to truly love. Actually, not much has changed. I have an inability to love sad endings, which probably reveals some dire existential shortcomings on my part. All right. Maybe I’ll try some Kay-musss.