By Dave Stancliff/For the Times-Standard
Posted: 11/07/2010 01:22:00 AM PDT
Make sure to set your clock back one hour if you forgot last night. Daylight Saving Time ended at 2 a.m. this morning.
Today is a special day for a lot of reasons. Every day is special to me, but just for fun, let's start by looking at some people who were born on Nov. 7.
If it's your birthday today, then congratulations, and may you have many more.
Polish chemist and physicist Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry, was born in 1867. Fiery Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born on this day in 1879. American evangelist Billy Graham was born in 1919.
Other Nove. 7 birthdays include Al Hirt, American trumpeter; King Kong Bundy, professional wrestler; Dana Plato, actress; Andy Houston, a NASCAR driver; and Dave Stancliff, newspaper columnist/blogger.
Next, let's look at some historic Nov. 7 dates, since you're still reading.
* One of my favorite political wits is Thomas Nast, who drew the first cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party's symbol on this day in 1874.
* The Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse made the first air freight shipment (From Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) in 1910.
* Woodrow Wilson (D) was re-elected president with a campaign slogan of “He kept us out of war” in 1916.
* Women in the state of Colorado were granted the right to vote in 1893.
* Herbert Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience, in 1928.
* The first broadcast of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” was aired on CBS-radio in 1932.
* Pennsylvania voters overturned a blue law that forbade Sunday sports in 1933.
* Cold War: The Gaither Report called for more American missiles and fallout shelters in 1957.
* Richard Nixon proclaimed, “You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore,” and quit politics on this day in 1962. Later, he ran for president and won two terms, only to be ousted after the Watergate affair, when he proclaimed, “I'm not a crook.”
* President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act establishing The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1967.
* John and Yoko released their “Wedding Album” in the U.K. in 1969.
* A bomb exploded at the U.S. Senate building in 1983. It was set by members of a group claiming to be the “Resistance Conspiracy” in protest of U.S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
* One of my favorite basketball players for the Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson, announced he had HIV virus and retired from the team in 1991.
* The controversial U.S. presidential election took place in 2000 and was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
* The USS New York, a warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, went into service in 2009.
Today is National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day, which is kind of a nutty thing to note, but someone thinks it's important enough to list on a holiday calendar.
Finally, the number 7 is thought to be lucky. So is the number 11. That makes today -- 7/ll -- special if you're into numerology.
As It Stands, perhaps most important, this day is the first day of the rest of your life!
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