November 2 - Refuge

Refuge

This Day In History

1769

Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.

1772

American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

1783

In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".

1895

The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000.

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.

1947

In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 Hercules, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1960

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

1988

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

Famous Birthdays

1470

King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower (d. 1483)

1734

Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820)

1755

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)

1837

Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)

1885

Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)

1913

Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)

1949

Lois McMaster Bujold, American science fiction and fantasy author

1956

Dale Brown, American author

1961

k.d. lang, Canadian musician