NATIONAL King Tut Day
NATIONAL Use Your Common Sense Day
NATIONAL Chicken Lady Day
NATIONAL Candy Day
NATIONAL Book Lovers Day [first Saturday of November]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1854 The first lighthouse on the West Coast was built at Alcatraz Island
1880 James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register
1922 The US Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail
1923 The tomb of Pharoah Tutankhamun is discovered in the Valley of the Kings
1992 Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African-American woman elected to the US Senate
2008 Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is elected the 44th and first African-American president of the United States
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