Here is your daily dose of Today in History:
It Bean Day in North Dakota. I guess we should all feel lucky we're that far away from North Dakota.
It's Housewife's Day Today. Sneak home and make a housewife feel a little less desperate.
It National Sandwich Day - observed on the birthday of John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, creator of the sandwich. To celebrate, begin gambling heavily, don't get up from the table for several hours and call for your manservant to bring you a slab of beef and two pieces of bread (and a piss pot).
November 3, 1913 -
Federal income tax law signed.
November 3, 1956 -
"It looks like we're not in Kansas anymore." "Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV). Since most TV's at the time are black and white the technicolor part of the film is lost on the audience.
November 3, 1957 -
Laika the dog becomes the first living creature in space. She asphyxiated when oxygen in the Soviet Sputnik 2 ran out. However, some western researchers speculate that Laika roasted when the satellite's heat shields were detached. I wonder if the Explorer's club served Roast Dog in her honor that year.
November 3, 1978 -
Diff'rent Strokes premieres on NBC. The cast's child actors have gone on to bigger and better things: Todd Bridges (arrests: drug possession, 1983; attempted murder, 1989; knife stabbing in self defense, no arrest, 1993; assault with a deadly weapon, 1997); Dana Plato (armed robbery, 1992, then a porno centerfold; dead of a drug overdose in 1999); Gary Coleman (a short, pudgy gun nut who plays Nintendo games; 2003 gubernatorial candidate).
Come on everybody:
And so it goes.
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