November 3 in history

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361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.

1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.

1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.

1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.

1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

1534– English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.

1592 – The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.

1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.

1789 – The first District Court established by the Constitution opens in New York City.

1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

1796 – John Adams is elected as 2nd president of the U.S

1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.

1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.

1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

1839: The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.

1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.

1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).

1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.

1868 – Ulysses S. Grant (R) defeats Horatio Seymour (D) to win the Presidency.

1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.

1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.

1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.

1918:  As the First World War was drawing to a close, angry rebels in both Germany and Austria-Hungary revolted, raising the red banner of the revolutionary socialist Communist Party and threatening to follow the Russian example in bringing down their imperialist governments.

1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

1930 – The first vehicles passed through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, which connected Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario.

1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.

1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite.

1941:  The Combine Japanese Fleet received Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Mayala, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.

1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.

1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.

1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

1948:   the Chicago Tribune jumped the gun and mistakenly declared New York Governor Thomas Dewey the winner of his presidential race with incumbent Harry S. Truman in a front-page headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman."

1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.

1956 – The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.

1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.

1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

1964 – Residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation's capital the right to vote for a commander in chief and vice president. They went on to help Democrat Lyndon Johnson defeat Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, the next presidential election.

1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. In some of the heaviest fighting seen in the Central Highlands area, heavy casualties were sustained by both sides in bloody battles around Dak To, about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border.

1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.

1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.

1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.

1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

1982 – The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.

1986 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.

1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.

1992: In Illinois, Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).

1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

2013 – A solar eclipse sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States.

2014 – One World Trade Center officially opens

Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Winefrid, Virgin and Martyr.  Double.

Commemoration of the Octave of All Saints.

Contemporary Western

Blessed Manuel Lozano Garrido
Hubertus
Malachy O' More
Martin de Porres
Rupert Mayer
Winifred

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Richard Hooker (Anglican Communion)

Eastern Orthodox

November 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Martyrs Acepsimas of Hnaita, the bishop (376), Joseph the presbyter (377),
      and Aeithalas the deacon (377), of Persia
Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion,
      and Companions, at Sebaste (320)
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus contested around the year 330.
      Persian Christians who confessed their faith before Shapur II, the king. Their
      confession inspired the conversion of 7000 Persians before they were burned
      to death. Two churches in Constantinople are named in their honor.

Coptic Orthodox

November 2 in history

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619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.

1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.

1777 – The USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, left Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it would stop before heading toward the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships. This was the first mission of its kind during the Revolutionary War.

1783 – General George Washington says goodbye to his army after the American Revolutionary War.

1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

1824 – In the first popular presidential vote recorded Andrew Jackson beats John Quincy Adams.

1861 – Controversial Union General John C. Fremont was relieved of command in the Western Department and replaced by David Hunter.

1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.

1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1890 – Formal and official founding of the Uddevalla Suffrage Association.

1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.

1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.

1912:  The XIT Ranch of Texas, once among the largest ranches in the world, sold its last head of cattle.

1912:  The steamer Okanogan accidentally sank during the night due to negligence on the part of the night watchman.  The boat was raised in the morning with only nominal damage to the cargo.

1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.

1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a declaration of intent proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.

1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.

1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.

1942:  General Montgomery broke through Rommel's defensive line at El Alamein, Egypt, forcing a retreat. It was the beginning of the end of the Axis occupation of North Africa.

1947 – Designer Howard Hughes piloted the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.

1948:  In on of the greatest upset in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just over two million popular votes.

1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

1951 – Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.

1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.

1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu are assassinated during a military coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army.

1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.

1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

1977 – South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.

1982 – Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.

2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

2014 – A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah, India.

Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Within the Octave of All Saints.

Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)

Contemporary Western

All Souls' Day
      Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil and Portugal)
      El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

All Souls' Day
Daniel Payne (Lutheran)

Eastern Orthodox

November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

The Holy Senators of Sebasteia, martyrs of senatorial rank,
      martyred under Licinius, by fire (c. 315)
Martyrs Eudoxios, Agapios, and eight others with them,
      soldiers from Sebasteia, martyred under Licinius (c. 315)
Women-Martyrs Kyriaki (Cyriaca), Domnina and Domna, by the sword
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus,
      and those with them, of Persia (341)
Holy 7,000 Martyrs who suffered in Persia,
      (along with Sts Acindynus, Pegasias, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus,
      and Anempodistus), during the reign of King Sapor II (310-381)
St. Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk in Syria, confessor (c. 388)

Saint Justus of Trieste, sentenced to death by drowning (293)
Martyrs Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias, in North Africa
Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop of Pettau in Styria in Austria
      and the earliest exegete in the West (304)
Saint Erc of Slane, Bishop of Slane, Ireland (512)
Saint Ambrose, abbot of the monastery of St. Moritz
      in Agaunum in Switzerland (532 or 582)
Saint George of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul (c. 699)
Saints Baya (Bava) and Maura, Anchoresses in Scotland;
      St Bava guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent (c. 10th century)
Saint Amicus, born near Camerino in Italy, he became a priest,
      then a hermit and finally a monk at St Peter's in Fonte Avellana (c. 1045)

Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th century)
Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgebadze), Confessor and Fool-for-Christ (1995)

New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorinus, and Priest Basil Luzgin of Glazomicha (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Ananias Aristov of Perm, and Constantine Organov, Priests (1918)

Ozerianka Icon of God of Shui-Smolensk (Shuiskaya-Smolensk) (1654-1655)

Coptic Orthodox

In the news, Friday, November 2, 2012

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from The Atlantic  Magazine

It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote

Oliver Wendell Holmes made the analogy during a controversial Supreme Court case that was overturned more than 40 years ago.

Ninety-three years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what is perhaps the most well-known -- yet misquoted and misused -- phrase in Supreme Court history: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." Without fail, whenever a free speech controversy hits, someone will cite this phrase as proof of limits on the First Amendment. And whatever that controversy may be, "the law"--as some have curiously called it--can be interpreted to suggest that we should err on the side of censorship. Holmes' quote has become a crutch for every censor in America, yet the quote is wildly misunderstood.

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from The Daily Caller

Pelosi holds secret fundraiser with Islamists, Hamas-linked groups

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, WA

Isolated NYC borough says help is slow after Sandy
Eileen Aj Connelly, Meghan Barr      Associated Press

Bodies found as Sandy leaves
Victims include New York boys swept from their mother’s arms
Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Bloomberg: NYC Marathon will go on
Jennifer Peltz, Rachel Cohen      Associated Press

Long lines, rising tempers seen at gas stations
Eileen Aj Connelly, Meghan Barr      Associated Press

Lines at East Coast gas stations steam commuters
Karen Matthews      Associated Press

Tired of dark, Sandy victims head to loved ones
Leanne Italie, Verena Dobnik      Associated Press

Coast Guard probing cause of tall ship’s sinking
Associated Press

With offices out, NY Daily News keeps publishing
Christina Rexrode      Associated Press

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In brief:  From Wire Reports:

Israel acknowledges assassinating Wazir

Jerusalem – More than 24 years after Palestinian military leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir was assassinated in Tunisia, Israel has acknowledged for the first time that its spy agency Mossad carried out the killing.

Wazir, one of the founders of the Fatah Party and a top aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was viewed by Israel as a terrorist and by Palestinians as a freedom fighter.

After refusing for years to confirm publicly Israel’s role in the April 16, 1988, assassination, the nation’s military censors on Thursday permitted the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot to publish an interview with the commander who led the secret mission. The article had reportedly been suppressed by censors for more than a decade.

Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, was believed to have been behind numerous strikes against Israelis, including a 1978 bus-hijacking attack that killed 38 Israelis, and to have helped organize the 1987 Palestinian uprising known as the first Intifada from his base in Tunisia.

The killing was condemned by the United States and international community and was widely believed to have been carried out by Israel.


Sanctions eased to allow medicine sales

Washington – The Obama administration has quietly eased restrictions on the sale of medicine to Iran amid signs that concern over the suffering of ordinary citizens could complicate an international campaign to punish Iran for its disputed nuclear program.

Though U.S. rules have always permitted American firms to sell medicine and medical supplies to Iran, exporters have been required to apply for special licenses. Last month, the Treasury Department changed the rules to provide what amounts to a “standing authorization” for sales of certain foods and medicines to ease the paperwork burden, a spokesman for the department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control said.

“The goal is not for the sanctions to obstruct this kind of trade,” said the spokesman.

Fake IRS site scams taxpayers

The IRS is warning taxpayers about a new scam that uses a fake tax-help website to gain personal financial information.

The Web page “looks almost identical” to the real IRS e-Services page, the tax agency said in a news release. But the e-Services page is available only to tax preparers, not the general public, the release said.

It’s one of many phony IRS website scams.

“The address of the official IRS website is www.irs.gov. Don’t be misled by sites claiming to be the IRS but ending in .com, .net, .org or other designations instead of .gov,” the news release said.

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Officials: No delays in rescue efforts in Libya
CIA refutes report of telling personnel to ‘stand down’
Lolita C. Baldor      Associated Press

US officials counter reports on Benghazi attacks
Lolita C. Baldor      Associated Press

Timeline of rescue effort events

Pentagon saw chance for hostage mission in Libya
The Associated Press

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Home tour is step back in time
Preserved houses include mayor’s, from 1910
Mike Prager      The Spokesman-Review

Editorial: Spokane’s historical abundance spans city

Correction (published Nov. 9):  The Monroe Street Bridge was constructed in 1911. McKinstry is located in the restored Spokane and Inland Empire Rail Road (SIERR) Rail Car Facility. The bridge’s completion, and name of the McKinstry location, were incorrect in the Nov. 2 editorial.

DC judge orders some Watergate records unsealed

Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis

Where are all the space shuttles now?

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from The Wenatchee World

One of Wenatchee’s pioneering families, the Amos Peters family, in 1918. The occasion was the golden wedding anniversary of Amos (also known as Elder) and his wife. The couple are seated with their daughter, Katie. Their sons are, from left standing, John, James, Marvin and Hiram. Peters first arrived in Wenatchee in 1900. He and his wife returned to the valley in 1903 and settled in Sunnyslope.

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Traditional ceremonies give the dead their due

Internet rolls into Bangladesh villages on a bike

Liberty Bell teachers show their ‘Gangnam Style’

More doctors honor religious objections to blood transfusions

Wilf Woods: Historic ski exhibits will check in for stays at Leavenworth inns this fall

Rufus Woods / Group launching effort to improve forest health

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365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.

996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).

1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.

1179:  Philip II is crowned King of France.

1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.

1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".

1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.

1512:  The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1520:  The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.

1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1611 – William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitay-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky.

1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.

1755:  Lisbon, Portugal, is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people. The city was virtually rebuilt from scratch following the widespread destruction.

1765:  In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, the British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies, a taxation measure designed to raise revenue in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

1790:  Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

White House Red Room, 1889
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1800:  U.S. President John Adams and his wife Abigail moved into the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House), the first president to officially take residence.

1805:  Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.

1814:  Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars

1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions.

1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln names George Brinton McClellan as the commander of the Union army, replacing the aged and infirm Winfield Scott. In just six months, McClellan had gone from commander of the Ohio volunteers to the head of the Union army.

1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.

1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.

1894:  Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.

1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 – World War I: In the Battle of Coronel, the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, a German naval squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee sank two British armored cruisers, HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth, with all aboard, in the Pacific off the southern coast of Chile.

1914 – World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.

1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

1916 – Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.

1918:  Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1918 – The short-lived Banat Republic is founded.

1920 – American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey.

1937:  Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.

1937:  The Deschutes Project in Oregon was approved.

1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.

1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1941:  President Roosevelt announced that the U.S. Coast Guard would now be under the direction of the U.S. Navy, a transition of authority usually reserved only for wartime.

1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.

1943 – World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.

1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.

1946 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Kraków's archbishop, Adam Sapieha.

1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.

1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.

1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.

1952 – Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons.

1953 – Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital.

1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

1954 – The Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy and his slander campaigns.

1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.

1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore State are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.

1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu state from Kerala.

1956 – The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.

1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.

1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

1961 – Fifty thousand women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.

1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.

1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins

1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

1969 – The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US.

1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.

1979 – In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Dr. Wálter Guevara.

1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

1993:  The Maastricht Treaty came into effect, formally establishing the European Union (EU). The treaty was drafted in 1991 by delegates from the European Community meeting at Maastricht in the Netherlands and signed in 1992. The agreement called for a strengthened European parliament, the creation of a central European bank, and common foreign and security policies. The treaty also laid the groundwork for the establishment of a single European currency, to be known as the "euro."

2000 – Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh killing 26 people and injuring 135.

Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

FEAST OF ALL THE SAINTS.      Double of the First Class.

Contemporary Western

All Saints' Day
Austromoine
Benignus of Dijon
Caesarius of Africa
Santa Muerte

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Eastern Orthodox

November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia
      and their mother Venerable Theodota of Mesopotamia (c. 287)
Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana in Cilicia (305)
Hieromartyr John the Bishop and James the Presbyter of Persia (345)
Martyrs Caesarius, Dacius, Sabbas, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian,
      and Thomas at Damascus (7th century)
Saint Theolepte, martyr.
Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana

Saint Benignus of Dijon (traditionally of the 3rd century)
Martyr Mary the Slave Girl (c. 117-138)
Saint Austromoine (Austremonius, Stremoine), first Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand,
      the "apostle of Auvergne" (c. 250)
Martyrs Caesarius of Africa, a Deacon of Africa, together with Julian,
      a local presbyter, martyred at Terracina in Italy (c. 284-305)
Saint Maturinus (Mathurin), confessor, French exorcist and missionary,
     apostle and patron of Gâtinais (c. 300)
Saint Marcellus, 9th Bishop of Paris (c. 430)
Saint Amabilis of Riom (475)[10]
Saint Cledwyn (Clydwyn), patron saint of Llangedwyn in Clwyd in Wales (5th century)
Saint Pabiali of Wales, patron-saint of Partypallai in Wales (5th/6th century)
Saint Dingad of Llandingat (5th century)[10]
Saint Vigor, disciple of St Vedast, became Bishop of Bayeux,
      resolutely opposed paganism (c. 537)
Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth of Spain, prince (586)
Saint Gwythian (Gothian, Gocianus) of Cornwall (6th century)
Saint Cadfan, Abbot of Tywyn and Bardsey (6th century)
Saint Caillin, a disciple of St Aidan of Ferns in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Ceitho, one of five brothers, all saints in Wales (6th century)
Saint Licinius of Angers (Lesin, Lezin), chosen Bishop of Angers in 586
      and consecrated by St Gregory of Tours (c. 616)
Saint Caesarius, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 627)
Saint Floribert (Florbert), Abbot of monasteries in Ghent, Mont-Blandin
     and Saint-Bavon in Belgium (c. 660)[10]
Saint Genesius of Lyon (c. 679)[
Saint Severinus, a monk who lived as a hermit in Tivoli in Italy (c. 699)
Saint Germanus of Montfort, born in Montfort in France, became a monk
      at the monastery of Savigny, reposed as a hermit (c. 906-1000)

Venerable James of Mount Athos and his two disciples
      James the Deacon and Dionysius the Monk (1520)
Venerable Saint David of Euboea (1589)
New Virgin-Martyr Helen of Sinope (18th century)
Saint Cosmas of Verkhoturye (1704)

Hieromartyrs Alexander (Smirnov), and Theodore (Remezov), Priests (1918)
Hieromartyr Demetrius (Ovechkin), Priest of Perm (1937)
Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Zaporizhia Eparchy (1937):
      Hieromartyr Sergius (Zverev),[note 11] Archbishop of Elets and Melitopol;
      Hieroconfessor Alexander (Ilyenkiv);
      Hieroconfessor Dimitrius (Ihnatenko), Protopresbyter;
      Hieroconfessor Victor (Kiraniv), Protopresbyter;
      Hieroconfessor Michael (Bohoslovsky), Protopresbyter;
      Hieromartyr Matthew (Alexandriv), Priest;
      Hieromartyr Michael (Shafaniv), Priest, and his Presbytera, St Sofia;
      Hieroconfessor Alexius (Usenko), Priest;
      Martyr Stefan (Nalyvayko).
Virgin-martyr Elizabeth Samovskoy (1937)
Martyr Peter Ignatov (1941)

Translation of the relics of Boniface, enlightener of Germany (755)
Repose of Elder Hilarion of Valaam and Sarov (1841)

Coptic Orthodox

In the news, Thursday, November 1, 2012

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WED 31      INDEX      FRI 02

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Obama Has Touted Al Qaeda’s Demise 32 Times since Benghazi Attack

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from LifeNews.com

Obama Admin Tells Court: Hobby Lobby Must Obey HHS Mandate

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from Popular Science

From Hiroshima To The H-Bomb: 10 Earth-Shaking Moments In Atomic Science

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from The Spokesman-Review

Northeast faces slow recovery
Obama tours devastated areas, promises ‘we are here for you’

New Yorkers adjust to conditions
City covered in soaked possessions; many powerless

Gov’t paying for emergency transportation in NY

Battered NJ agonizes over whether to rebuild shore

Storm invigorates proponents of NYC sea barrier

Storm washes away much of ‘Jersey Shore’ town

Wells and Co. has been revitalizing cityscape for decades
Mike Prager      The Spokesman-Review

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In brief: From Wire Reports:

Clinton lays out plan to aid Syrian opposition fighters

Washington – The Obama administration and allies have begun a new effort to reshape the Syrian opposition to give a bigger role to frontline fighters, a smaller one to Syrian exiles, and to exclude entirely the Islamist radicals who have flocked to the war against the government of President Bashar Assad, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters in Croatia, Clinton said the U.S. and allies hope to take a major step in forming a future leadership of Syria at an Arab League-sponsored meeting in Qatar next week that will include a range of Syrian representatives, as well as U.S., European and Arab officials.

The new opposition leadership must include “a representation of those who are on the front lines, fighting and dying today to obtain their freedom,” she said in an appearance with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic.

“This cannot be an opposition represented by people who have many good attributes but have, in many instances, not been inside Syria for 20, 30 or 40 years,” she said in a reference to the Paris-based Syrian National Council.

Chinese think tank suggests ending one-child policy

Beijing – A government think tank is urging Chinese leaders to start phasing out China’s one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.

Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others warn that the gradual approach, if implemented, would still be insufficient to help correct the problems that China’s strict birth limits have created.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the foundation recommends a two-child policy in some provinces from this year and a nationwide two-child policy by 2015. It proposes all birth limits be dropped by 2020, Xinhua reported.

But it remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take up the recommendations. China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission had no immediate comment on the report Wednesday.

Shell ends drilling in Arctic near Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Shell Oil’s flotilla of Arctic Ocean vessels is heading for warmer waters.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced that it concluded exploratory drilling on Wednesday, its mandatory cutoff date before winter. It completed preliminary drilling at one well at the Burger-A Prospect 70 miles offshore in the Chukchi Sea and one at the Sivulliq Prospect 18 miles offshore in the Beaufort Sea.

“We’re looking forward to revisiting these wells as soon as we can next year,” Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said by phone from Prudhoe Bay.

The end of drilling by Shell’s two drill ships and about 20 support vessels wraps up a tumultuous season that saw the company penetrate the ocean floor for the first time in more than two decades, finally making progress on an Arctic offshore investment of more than $4.5 billion, including $2.1 billion for Chukchi leases in 2008.

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Doctor K: Old, peeling paint may pose lead risk

Sunspot cycle on pace to be weakest event in 100 years

Randy Mann

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from The Wenatchee World

 SURVEY CREW: Local resident W.R. Prowell (fifth from left) was part of
a survey group that would plan the route for the Great Northern Railroad
 Co. across the Cascades. While working, the group was housed at the
Bates’ Hotel (which later became the Cougar Inn) and the Blankenship
log home in the Lake Wenatchee area. This photo was taken in Wenatchee
several years later during festivities held Aug. 30, 1924, to celebrate the
Wenatchee Southern Railway building permit.

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Massive wildfires: Rare events or harbingers?

Cora Lucinda (Hicks) Nordby  Obituary

Endeavour display already encouraging the next generation of space explorers

Business Past: Alloy plant takes shape

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FB BACKUP November 1-15, 2012

Saddlerock double rainbow in Wenatchee, WA
posted on Everything Washington, 11-1
Photo Credit- Josh Tarr

USS Abraham Lincol passing the Hampton Roads Naval Museum
posted by Hampton Roads Naval Museum, 11-1