On This Day:
Saturday November 2, 2013 This is the 306th day of the year, with 59 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: hockey mask Hockey goaltender Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante is credited with bringing the modern-day hockey mask to the NHL in 1959. Some goaltenders wore leather-type masks previously, but the idea never caught on. Over the course of his career, Plante received several injuries caused by being hit in the face with a puck. In a game against the New York Rangers in 1959, Plante was hit in the face with a puck and required stitches. He came out of the locker room wearing a fiberglass mask - thus ushering in the era of the goaltender's hockey mask as everyday equipment.
Holidays Feast day of All Souls (All Souls' Day), St. Victorinus of Pettau, and Saint Marcian of Cyrrhus.
Events 1721 - Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, changed his title to emperor to be more in line with European thinking. He also founded the new Russian capital of St. Petersburg.
1772 - The first Committees of Correspondence were formed under Samuel Adams in Massachusetts.
1776 - William Demont became the first traitor of the American Revolution.
1783 - General George Washington issued his "'Farewell Address to the Army," near Princeton, New Jersey.
1862 - Mary Todd Lincoln corresponded with her husband, advising him of popular sentiment against General in Chief of the Federal Army George B. McClellan. Shortly after receiving this letter, Abraham Lincoln removed McClellan from his command.
1871 - The "Rogues Gallery" was started, when photographs of all prisoners in Britain were first taken.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1903 - London's "Daily Mirror" newspaper was first published.
1914 - Russia declared war on Turkey.
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine. This became known as the Balfour Declaration.
1920 - The first radio broadcast of presidential election returns was done by KDKA of Pittsburgh.
1920 - Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States of America.
1921 - Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett formed the American Birth Control League.
1930 - Ras Tafari, King of Ethiopia, was crowned emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
1947 - Howard Hughes proved the airworthiness of the Spruce Goose, but the aircraft never flew again. It was designed to take 700 men to war, but the war ended before the plane was completed.
1948 - In a great upset, Harry S. Truman narrowly beat Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey and surprised many, including the "Chicago Tribune" editors who had prematurely printed news of Dewey's "win".
1959 - Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a U.S. House subcommittee that he had been fed questions and answers prior to appearing on the TV show "Twenty-One."
1960 - A British jury acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity for publishing D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
1963 - During an army coup in South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. He was succeeded by General Duong Van Minh.
1976 - James Earl Carter was elected 39th President of the United States of America, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed the bill designating a federal holiday (third Monday in January) in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1984 - Margie Velma Barfield, a convicted murderer, became the first woman to be executed in the modern era of the death penalty, in North Carolina.
1990 - Ivana Trump filed for divorce from US millionaire Donald Trump.
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as president.
Births 1470 - Edward V, King of England.
1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, explorer.
1755 - Marie Antoinette, queen of King Louis XVI of France.
1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States of America (1845-1849).
1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States of America (1921-1923).
1877 - Aga Khan III, hereditary head of Ismailian Muslims, owner of five Kentucky Derby winners.
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian film director.
1913 - Burt Lancaster, American Academy Award-winning actor.
1938 - Patrick Joseph Buchanan, American syndicated columnist and broadcaster.
1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboard player and composer, and founder of the 70s progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
1961 - Kathryn Dawn Lang, known by the stage name k.d. lang (without capital letters), a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Deaths 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish-born operatic soprano.
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient.
1961 - James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist.
1992 - Hal Roach, American filmmaker, born in Elmira, NY.
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