November 1 No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits
no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
By Thomas Hood
Quite an eventful day, November the first....
1512 Michelangelo’s ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time.
1969 ARPANET machine installed at UC Santa Barbara. Early
version of the internet.
1929 Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, was convicted
of accepting bribe of $100,000 in the leasing of the Elk Hills. Fall was the first cabinet
member in US history ever to be convicted of a felony. He had no ability to pay the fine..
(Teapot Dome) Naval Oil Reserve, sentenced to a year in prison and
fined $100,000.
1870 National Weather Service makes first forecast.
1520 The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1765 Parliament enacts the Stamp Act. All paper used in the
colonies had to have the special taxed stamp which include the word
“America” and the Latin phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense, (shame
to him who thinks evil of it). Boycott of British goods caused repeal
in March of 1766.
1950 While the White House was under re-construction, President Truman lived in Blair House. On this date, two fanatical Puerto Rican nationalists tied to shoot their way into Blair House: one assassin and a Secret Service agent were killed.
1952 US tests the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the Hydrogen
bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits
no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
By Thomas Hood
Quite an eventful day, November the first....
1512 Michelangelo’s ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time.
1969 ARPANET machine installed at UC Santa Barbara. Early
version of the internet.
1929 Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, was convicted
of accepting bribe of $100,000 in the leasing of the Elk Hills. Fall was the first cabinet
member in US history ever to be convicted of a felony. He had no ability to pay the fine..
(Teapot Dome) Naval Oil Reserve, sentenced to a year in prison and
fined $100,000.
1870 National Weather Service makes first forecast.
1520 The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1765 Parliament enacts the Stamp Act. All paper used in the
colonies had to have the special taxed stamp which include the word
“America” and the Latin phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense, (shame
to him who thinks evil of it). Boycott of British goods caused repeal
in March of 1766.
1950 While the White House was under re-construction, President Truman lived in Blair House. On this date, two fanatical Puerto Rican nationalists tied to shoot their way into Blair House: one assassin and a Secret Service agent were killed.
1952 US tests the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the Hydrogen
bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
