Thought for Today

 History: 42 BC: First Battle of Philippi--Mark Antony and Octavian v. Brutus and Cassius 1863: Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 1872: Bloomingdale's open in NYC 1899: Motor driven vacuum cleaner patented by JS Thurman 1904: Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School [Bethune-Cookman 1908: Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky and others in Vienna 1913: Federal income tax law signed [1%] 1941: SS kills all elderly Jewish men in Kerenchug Ukraine 1941: The Maltese Falcon premiers 1951: Bobby Thomson hits "shot heard round the world" in the 9th inning 1954: "Father Knows Best" premiers 1960: "Andy Griffith Show" premiers 1961:  The Dick Van Dyke Show and Mr. Ed premier 1963: Hurricane Flora hits Florida--5,000 die, 100,000 injured 1974: Watergate criminal trial begins 1995: OJ Simpson found not guilty of murder 2003: Roy Horn [Siegfried & Roy] attacked by tiger [on his birthday] Born: Thomas Wo...

History: 1847: Siemens AG founded 1854: Watch company relocates to Waltham MA 1867: "Des Kapital" published by Marx 1868: Louisa May Alcott publishes "Little Women" 1869: First postcards--Vienna 1888: First National Geographic 1890: Congress creates Weather Bureau 1891: Stanford University opens 1892: University of Chicago opens 1903: First World Series Game--Cy Young is losing pitcher 1907" Plaza Hotel NYC opens 1919: Black Sox World Series begins 1932; Babe Ruth's "called" home run 1942: Little Golden Books begins publishing 1949 Mao proclaims People's Republic of China 1955: The Honeymooners premiers 1957: First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper money 1961: Christian Broadcasting Network begins broadcasting 1961: Roger Maris hits #61 1962: James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss 1962: Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show 1968: "Night of the Living Dead" premiers 1971: Walt Disney World opens 1974" Texas Chai...

  History: 1659: Robinson Crusoe ship wrecked [according to the book] 1791: "Magic Flute" by Mozart premiers in Vienna 1888: Jack the Ripper kills two more women 1929: 1st manned rocket plane flight 1935: Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers 1935: Boulder Dam [Hoover Dam] dedicated 1939: First televised college football game--Fordham beats Waynesburg 1941: Over 33,000 Jews shot by Nazis near Kiev 1947: First televised World Series game--Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 1950: Grand Ole Opry on TV for the first time 1950: WSM TV begins broadcasting 1953: Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice 1955: James Dean killed in car wreck 1960: The Flintstones premiers 1984: Murder She Wrote premiers 1993: Colin Powell retires 2019: Large iceberg calves from Amery ice shelf [315 billion tons] Born: William Wrigley, Hans Geiger [Geiger counter], Robert Lightfoot [theologist], Buddy Rich, Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Elie Wiesel, Angie Dickinson, Johnny Mathis, Jim Sasser, Marilyn ...

 History:  1793: Tennis first mentioned in British sporting magazine 1907: Construction of Washington National Cathedral begins. Frederick Hart designed the sculptures and his workshop and many works can be seen at Belmont 1910: National Urban League founded 1927: 85 die in St. Louis tornado 1953: Make Room for Daddy premiers 1954: Willie Mays makes over the shoulder catch in Game 1 1960: My Three Sons premiers 1962: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show premiers 1962: Kennedy authorizes federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi 1965: Ralph Boston sets long jump record--27' 4 3/4" 1966: Camaro introduced 1985: 1st death as a result of cyanide in Tylenol 1990: "Millie's Book" by Barbara Bush is best seller 1996: Nintendo 64 game console premiers in the US 2020: First Biden/Trump debate Born: Cervantes, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Horatio Nelson, Enrico Fermi, Greer Garson, Gne Autry, Trevor Howard, Bum Phillips, Stan Berenstain [Berenstain Bears], Jerry Lee Lewis...

  History: 935: Saint Wenceslas murdered 1542: Juan Cabrillo discovers California 1781: Siege of Yorktown begins 1850: Navy abolishes flogging as punishment 1928: First recording session in Nashville 1940: Tom Harmon [Michigan] has TD runs of 72, 86, and 94 yards 1941: Ted Williams ends season with batting average of .406 1961: "Doctor Kildare" and "Hazel" premier 1975: Bill authorizes admission of women at military academies 1987: Star Trek: The Next Generation premiers 1997: David Brinkley retires 2020: Covid death toll exceeds 1 million globally 2021: No Time to Die premiers Born: Confucius, Thomas Crapper [invented ballcock toilet], Henri Moissan [isolated fluorine], Ed Sullivan, Max Schmeling, Al Capp [Li'l Abner], Peter Finch, Marcello Mastroianni, Jerry Clower, Brigitte Bardot, Ben E King, Steve Largent, Janeane Garofalo, Hilary Duff,  Died: Herman Melville, Louis Pasteur, Emile Zola, Richard Sears [Sears Roebuck], Charles Duryea, Edwin Hubble, Harpo Marx...

 History: 1066: Normans set sail to conquer England 1825: 1st steam locomotive to carry passengers on public rail line 1864: Jesse James gang attacks train- 1892: Book matches patented 1905: E=MC squared introduced in article by Einstein 1908: First Model T 1912: WC Handy published "Memphis Blues" [considered 1st blues song] 1945: MacArthur meets Hirohito for the first time 1954:The Tonight Show premiers 1962: Rachel Carson publishes "Silent Spring" 1985: Hurricane Gloria hits East Coast 1988: Greg Louganis  wins Olympic Gold in 10 meter platform Born: Samuel Adams, Hiram Revels [1st Black Senator], Greg Morris [Mission Impossible], Kathy Whitworth [LPGA], Meat Loaf, Mike Schmidt, Steve Kerr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simona Halep Died: Edgar Degas, Aimee Semple McPherson [Pentecostal], Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Clara Bow, Jimmy Doolittle, George Blanda, Hugh Hefner, St. Vincent de Paul [founded the Daughters of Charity] Thought: Still pondering 1 Samuel 8 this morning. The p...

History: 1580: Sir Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the globe 1789: Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State and John Jay 1st Chief Justice 1892: First public appearance of the John Philip Sousa Marine Band 1934: RMS Queen Mary launched  1949: Groundbreaking for Hollywood sign 1960: First Nixon/Kennedy debate 1962: Beverly Hillbillies premiers 1964: Gilligan's Island debuts 1969: Beatles release Abbey Road album 1969: Brady Bunch premiers 1973: Concorde makes its fist non-stop crossing of the Atlantic [3 hours 33 minutes] 2010: Downton Abbey premiers in UK 2020: Amy Coney Barrett nominated to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2021: Switzerland votes to legalize same-sex marriage Born: Francis of Assisi, Ivan Pavlov, Edmund Gwenn [Miracle on 34th Street], T.S. Eliot, Martin Heidegger, George Gershwin, Bill France Sr. [founded NASCAR], Jack LaLanne, Donna Douglas, Winnie Mandela, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Hamilton, Jim Caviezel, Beto O'Rouke, Serena Williams,  Died...