Interrogatories
Have you ever been to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?
Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?
Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?
How worried are you about the Supreme Court's ultimate decision over this religious exemption?
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On This Day
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College (which is exactly what it sounds like) was founded.
In 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in NYC.
In 1965, President Johnson was told by the Pentagon that if their planned operations were to succeed, they'd need to increase number of American troops in Vietnam from 120,000 to 400,000 (a veritable surge).
In 1973, the Senate voted to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States, replacing the disgraced Spiro Agnew.
In 1978, former city supervisor and ex-cop Dan White shot and killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk.
In 2001, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a hydrogen atmosphere on the extrasolar planet Osiris. This was the first atmosphere ever seen on an extrasolar planet.
In 2005, surgeons in Amiens, France performed the first partial human face transplant.
Born on This Day
1635 – Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 - Anders Celsius, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale) (d. 1744)
1798 - Rafael Tejeo, Spanish painter (d. 1856)
1809 – Fanny Kemble, British actress, author and abolitionist (d. 1893)
1820 - Thomas Baines, English painter (d. 1875)
1827 - Edouard Moyse, French painter, possibly the first to paint scenes of Jewish life in France. (d. 1908)
1853 – Frank Dicksee, English Victorian painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
1859 - William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (d. 1886)
1878 - William Orpen, Irish painter (d. 1931)
1886 - Tsugouharu Foujita, Japanese painter who lived and worked in France (d. 1968) See Tipple Jar
1905 - Astrid Allwyn, American actress (d. 1978)
1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
1937 – Gail Sheehy, American writer
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American dullard, 39th Governor of Minnesota (the man who had a bridge collapse on his watch).
1962 – Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
Died on This Day
1654 - Pieter Meulener, Dutch painter (b. 1602)
1673 - Anthonie Palamedesz, Dutch painter (b. 1601)
1833 - Philip Reinagle, English painter (b. 1749)
1894 - Charles Burton Barber, British painter of sentimental pictures of dogs and children (b. 1845)
1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1900 - Anton Seitz, German genre painter (b. 1829)
1901 - Antonio Gisbert, Spanish painter (b. 1834)
1918 - Bohumil Kubista, Czech painter (who, oddly enough, dabbled in Cubism) (b. 1884)
1925 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French Cubist-Fauvist painter (b. 1885)
1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 – Evelyn Preer, African-American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1933 - Robert Anning Bell, English painter (b. 1863)
1945 - Josep Maria Sert, Spanish muralist (b. 1874)
1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1958 - Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch, British horse painter (b. 1869)
981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1997 - Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League (b. 1907)
1997 - Eduardo Kingman, Ecuadorian artist (b. 1913)
2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
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