November 7 - Feet

Feet

Overheard

[In the car]
M: Elanor! Stop doing whatever you're doing!
E: I'm not doing whatever I'm doing!

This Day In History

680

The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

1492

The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1665

The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1786

The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1874

A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

1910

The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1929

In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

1940

In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

1967

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1994

WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

1996

NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

Famous Birthdays

1728

Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)

1805

Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)

1867

Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)

1897

Armstrong Sperry, American children's author and illustrator (d. 1976)

1922

Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)

1952

David Petraeus, American military commander

1954

Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian writer

1959

Keith Lockhart, American orchestral conductor