Guy Fawkes Day
Daylight Savings Time Ends [first Sunday in November, change your clocks!]
NATIONAL Gunpowder Day
NATIONAL Zero Tasking Day
NATIONAL Love Your Red Hair Day
NATIONAL Doughnut Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1605 Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an unsuccessful attempt by Catholics to blow up British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot”
1639 First post office in the colonies opened in Massachusetts
1872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested and fined $100 for trying to vote
1911 Calbraith P. Rodgers ends the first transcontinental flight – 49 days from New York to Pasadena, California
1930 Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit
1935 Parker Brothers company launches “Monopoly,” a game of real estate and capitalism
1979 Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared US “The Great Satan”
2009 US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation
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