Daily Calendar for Thursday, November 2, 2023

Born

  • Daniel Boone (frontiersman)
  • Marie Antoinette (Queen of France)
  • James Polk (11th U.S. president)
  • Warren G. Harding (29th U.S. president)
  • Aga Khan III (religious leader)
  • Harlow Shapley (astronomer)
  • Odysseus Elytis (poet)
  • Burt Lancaster (actor)
  • Keith Emerson (musician)
  • Willie Dean McGee (baseball player)
  • k.d. lang (singer)
  • Orlando Cabrera (baseball player)

Died

  • George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
  • Bob Trow (actor, best known for his portrayal of gibberish-talking Robert Troll and Bob Dog on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood)

Events

  • North and South Dakota admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states
  • Balfour Declaration states the British objective of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine
  • Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the first commercial news, featuring the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election
  • The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established
  • Howard Hughes’ Hercules (aka Spruce Goose) plane flew one mile. Its wingspan was 320 feet
  • Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House Sub-Committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the quiz show Twenty-One
  • President George W. Bush won re-election over Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry
  • Record-breaking pinata measured 60 feet long and 23 feet 10.5 inches wide
  • Nik Wallenda set two world records with two high-wire walks between Chicago skyscrapers without safety equipment. The first walk was 454 feet long, at a 19 degree incline, starting at 588 feet high and ending at 671 feet high. The second walk, done blindfold, was 94 feet long and 543 feet high.
  • The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908

Weather

  • A storm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, blocked Benjamin Franklin’s view of a lunar eclipse
  • Snowstorms commenced in the southern Rockies, bringing 31 inches of heavy, wet snow to Denver and 36 inches to New Mexico’s mountains
  • Hurley, Wisconsin, had 40 inches of snow

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