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Today is Day 307 of 2025
St
Hubert's Day - in honor of the patron saint of hunters,
mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers.
1534
King Henry VIII is made
head of the Anglican
Church, taking over for the pope and the Roman Catholic
Church.
1718
British politician, inventor, explorer, John Montague (4th Earl of Sandwich), born.
Supposedly, the
sandwich is named for him because he often spent excessive amounts of
time gambling and he didn't want to get up from the gambling table to eat.
So,
he told his servants to bring him meat sandwiched in between two slices
of bread.
1794
Poet William Cullen
Bryant (Thanatopis) born in Cummington, Massachusetts.
1852
122nd Emperor of Japan, Emperor Meiji born
in Kyoto Gyoen National Garden, Kyoto, Yamashiro Province, Japan.
1883
Outlaw and stage coach bandit Charles Bolles,
known as Black Bart, gets away with his last stagecoach robbery.
He
would sometimes leave poems signed as Black Bart the PO8 at the scene of
the crimes.
1901
Author/statesman André
Malraux (Man's
Fate) born in Paris.
1918
Hall of Fame
pitcher Bob Feller
born in Van Meter, Iowa.
1933
Actor Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes)
born in Berkswell, Warwickshire, England.
1949
Editor and journalist Anna Wintour (Vogue) born in
Hampstead, London, England.
1954
Japanese film Godzilla released
to universal acclaim.
Artist Henri Matisse dies in Nice, France.
1956
The Wizard
of Oz is shown on TV for the first time.
1957
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the
first animal to enter orbit, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow
named Laika.
Psychotherapist and author and invenor Wilhelm Reich dies in the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Photo of the Day
Desert rose taken at the Desert Botanical Garden on 20181103.
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This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"You can't always tell by the looks of a toad how far he can jump." - New England Proverb
