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Nov 2, 1777: John Paul Jones sets sail
On this day in 1777, the USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, leaves Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it will stop before heading toward the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships. This was the first mission of its kind during the Revolutionary War.
Commander Jones, remembered as one of the most daring and successful naval commanders of the American Revolution, was born in Scotland, on July 6, 1747. He became an apprentice to a merchant at 13 and soon went to sea, traveling first to the West Indies and then to North America as a young man. In Virginia at the onset of the American Revolution, Jones sided with the Patriots and received a commission as a first lieutenant in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775.
After departing Brest, Jones successfully executed raids on two forts in England's Whitehaven Harbor, despite a disgruntled crew more interested in "gain than honor." Jones then continued to his home territory of Kirkcudbright Bay, Scotland, where he intended to abduct the earl of Selkirk and then exchange him for American sailors held captive by Britain. Although he did not find the earl at home, Jones' crew was able to steal all his silver, including his wife's teapot, still containing her breakfast tea. From Scotland, Jones sailed across the Irish Sea to Carrickfergus, where the Ranger captured the HMS Drake after delivering fatal wounds to the British ship's captain and lieutenant.
In September 1779, Jones fought one of the fiercest battles in naval history when he led the USS Bonhomme Richard frigate, named for Benjamin Franklin, in an engagement with the 50-gun British warship HMS Serapis. After the Bonhomme Richard was struck, it began taking on water and caught fire. When the British captain of the Serapis ordered Jones to surrender, he famously replied, "I have not yet begun to fight!" A few hours later, the captain and crew of the Serapis admitted defeat and Jones took command of the British ship. One of the greatest naval commanders in history, Jones is remembered as a "Father of the American Navy," along with fellow Revolutionary War hero Commodore John Barry.
John Paul Jones is buried in a crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland, where a Marine honor guard stands at attention whenever the crypt is open to the public.
One little side note for this particular day.
You see, on top of everything else, today is my son's birthday.
I had heard all of my life about the "miracle of life". And eight years ago on this day, I was not only witness to the birth of new life, but also, that new life was from me! My own flesh and blood, a new generation for my family was created right there!
It was a miracle, on so many levels.
And through a span of eight years - not always easy times, of course, - I still feel very thankful for his presence in my life, and for my roll as a father. He means the world to me, and I make sure to remind him of that every time that I see him. The one thing that I never want to make him feel like is unwelcome, or unappreciated, because his presence measures beyond any poor attempts at words here for me to express!
He just keeps on getting bigger, and somehow, predictably, I grow sadder watching him outgrow things. When he stops playing with some of the toys for very young children, or stops watching shows for the very young children, or says that he's "too old" or "too big" for certain things.
Yet, that too is only part of the story. I take joy in watching him grow older, in growing smarter and more world savvy. Plus, he is still just a kid, with plenty of time yet (for now) before he gets a taste of what adult life really is like. He is fixated on being bigger, on growing older, and closer to adulthood, and all of the respect and freedom that he associates with it.
Of course, that is the way that kids see adulthood. Once you reach it, you realize that it is a lot more than that. The privileges that come with that extra responsibility wear out fast, and the pitfalls begin to dominate after a certain amount of time. When
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
676 - Donus begins his reign as Catholic
Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
1327 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1355 - English invasion army under king
Edward lands at Calais
1418 - Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
1642 - 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen:
Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by
Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1675 - A combined attack by the
Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the
Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
1712 - Suriname government gives French
hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1722 - Willem KH Friso (11) appointed
viceroy of Gelderland
1749 - English Ohio Trade Company forms
1st trade post
1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of
Correspondence forms
1783 - General George Washington, later
1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American
Revolutionary War
1813 - Treaty of Fulda
1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st
recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 - 2nd Seminole War begins in
Osceola
1841 - Akbar Khan successfully revolts
against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1851 - Louis Napoleon takes power in
France
1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as
president of US
1854 - Cobblestone paving of Washington
St between Dupont & Kearny starts
US President & General Andrew
JacksonUS President & General Andrew Jackson 1861 - American Civil War:
Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and
replaced by David Hunter.
1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially
adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1875 - Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela
Angola, from Africa's east coast
1879 - In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston
loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 - James A Garfield (R) elected 20th
American President
1881 - Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union
forms
1889 - North Dakota becomes 39th &
South Dakota becomes 40th state
1892 - French poet Paul Verlaine visits
Netherlands
1895 - 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard
Belmar wins in 2:11½
1898 - French government-Dupuy forms
1898 - Theodor Herzl arrives in
Jerusalem
1898 - Cheerleading is started at the
University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on
the football team.
1899 - Boers begin siege of Ladysmith,
Natal
1903 - Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens
at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 - New Amsterdam Theater opens at
214 W 42nd St NYC
US President James GarfieldUS President
James Garfield 1904 - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1907 - Ottawa Mint Proclamation is
published
1913 - St Louis Browns mgr George
Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - V Herbert & H Blossoms
"Only Girl," premieres in NYC
1914 - Russia declares war on the
Ottoman Empire.
1915 - 1st US election by proportional
representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 - Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by
France
1917 - 1st US soldiers killed in combat
in WW I
1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support
for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US
recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920 - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as
1st commercial radio station
1920 - Warren G Harding elected 29th
president
1921 - Eugene O'Neill's "Anna
Christie," premieres in NYC
1922 - Allies deliberate over German
mark
1923 - Bloody street fights in Aken
(pro-French separatists driven)
1923 - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in
Germany, step down
1924 - Sunday Express publishes 1st
British crossword puzzle
1928 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st
Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 - Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen
is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
1931 - Warren, Dixon & Young's
musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in NYC
Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great
Babe Ruth 1934 - Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan
1936 - 1st high-definition TV broadcast
service, by BBC in London
1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation is established.
1937 - AL batting champ Charlie
Gehringer wins MVP
1938 - Babe Ruth applies for job of St
Louis Browns' manager
1938 - Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
1941 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein:
British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1942 - Britian under Montgomery defeats
German forces under Rommel in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II)
1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is
destroyed
1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens
assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 - 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at
Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US)
1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce
Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
33rd US President Harry Truman33rd US
President Harry Truman 1948 - Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over
Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 - WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore,
MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Netherland recognizes Indonesia
as a sovereign state
1949 - NL scheme for national
distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands
1950 - "Barrier" opens at
Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1950 - Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty
wins NL MVP
1953 - Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 - Charles C Diggs Jr elected
Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator
elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 - Taiwan & US sign military
pact
1955 - Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer
discover polio virus
1955 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli
government
1956 - Hungary appeals for UN assistance
against Soviet invasion
1956 - Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 - 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto
Ohio
First Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben-GurionFirst Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion 1957 - The Levelland
UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of
the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 - "Girls against the
Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 - Charles Van Doren confesses, TV
quiz show-"21," was fixed
1959 - The first section of the M1
motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened
between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45
motorway
1960 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String
quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 - George Weiss, at 66, resigns as
GM of NY Yankees
1960 - Penguin Books publishes
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
1960 - Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as
AL MVP, 225-222
1961 - "Kean" opens at
Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 - Max Frisch' "Andorra,"
premieres in Zurich
1963 - "Tambourines to Glory"
opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 - Only 1st-class cricket game
played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1964 - CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for
$11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 - Faisal succeeds Saud as king of
Saudi Arabia
1966 - KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD
(ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters
force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence
in the United States.
1968 - "Her First Roman"
closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation
Women's Golf Open
1969 - NFL record of 12 passing
touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6
touchdowns each
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose by
biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 - "Great Harp" opens at
Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 - Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits
Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 - Construction begins on Kingdome,
Seattle
1972 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins
unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at
Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - "Barbra Streisand ...and
Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV
1973 - OLADE (Latin American Energy
Organization) forms
1974 - Art Modell gets snowed in &
misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 - Braves trade Hank Aaron to
Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at
Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club
in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths
from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire
started.
1975 - Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns
to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 - Summit in Houston opens - Rockets
beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
38th US President Gerald Ford38th US
President Gerald Ford 1976 - Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for
president
1976 - NJ voters approve gambling for
Atlantic City
1976 - SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy
Young
1977 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd
Cy Young Award
1978 - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth
aboard Soyuz 31
1978 - France performs nuclear test at
Muruora Island
1978 - US performs nuclear test at
Nevada Test Site
1979 - Peter Shaffer's musical
"Amadeus," premieres in London
1982 - Fire in Salung tunnel,
Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 - Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA
Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 - President Reagan signs bill
establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1983 - Abp Hickey conducts papal
investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora
Island
1984 - Capital punishment: Velma
Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup
Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso,
Twilight Ridge
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King Jr.Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King
Jr. 1986 - 16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 - 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni
Poli in 2:11:06
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei
Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 - Entertainer Lola Falona is
diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 - George Harrison releases
"Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 - Computers virus strikes Pentagon,
SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 - Mexican radio station erronously
reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 - Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year
(3rd straight for Oakland A's)
1988 - The Morris worm, the first
internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media
attention, is launched from MIT.
1989 - "Meet Me in St Louis"
opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 - 1st NBA game at Target Center,
Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 - Jermaine Jackson releases
"Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
1991 - Nevada makes biggest comeback in
NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter &
rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup
Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse,
Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the
Patriarch of Constantinople.
1992 - 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 - 1st commemorative bricks are laid
at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond)
has his enlarge prostate removed
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected
1st woman governor of NJ
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of
Jerusalem
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th
mayor of NYC
1994 - Benzine explosion in Dronka
Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 - "Busker Alley,"
premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 - "Sacrilege" opens at
Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 - Spanish Broadcasting System buys
NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 - "Hughie," closes at
Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 - "Barrymore," closes at
Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 - 27th NYC Women Marathon won by
Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 - 28th NYC Marathon won by John
Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 - Ralphs Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup
1997 - Typhoon Linda kills at least 208
in southern Vietnam
1997 - USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA
Nichirei International
2000 - The first crew arrives at the
International Space Station.
1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor. 1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted. 1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ. 1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded. 1883 - Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031). 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states. 1895 - In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered car contest took place in America. 1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine. 1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting. 1921 - Margaret Sander's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League. 1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene. 1937 - The play "I'd Rather be Right" opened in New York City. 1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production. 1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois> 1959 - Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance. 1960 - In London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found not guilty of obscenity. 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba. 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup. 1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S. 1979 - Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper. 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1984 - Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend. 1985 - The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists. 1986 - The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was purchased for $30,800. Disney movies, music and books 1986 - American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers. 1989 - Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ. 1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection. 1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe. 1993 - Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey. 1995 - The play "Sacrilege" opened. 1995 - The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses. 1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley." 2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time. 2003 - In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop.
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states, respectively. 1947 Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose on its first and only flight. 1948 Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey to the surprise of pollsters and newspapers, in the greatest presidential upset in history. 1959 Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance. 1976 Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the deep South since the Civil War. 1984 Velma Margie Barfield, a convicted murderer became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. 2003 V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
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http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov02.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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