Almanac for November 2nd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for November 2nd: https://ko-fi.com/post/November-2-All-Souls-I2I315GF5S

Today's Observance: All Souls Day

Beatles Trivia: November 2, 1994, South Bend: In our continuing exploration of the Beatles in Media, I learned that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is not about LSD at all, but rather about a drawing that Julian Lennon drew when he was quite small.

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Bummer November 2nd

November 2, 1973: John Lennon releases his fourth solo album, Mind Games, and Ringo Starr releases (in the U.S.) his third solo album, Ringo. Ringo features songs written with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Studio musicians on Ringo include Marc Bolan and Billy Preston.

November 2, 1987: George Harrison releases his final album, Cloud Nine. 

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Bummer November 2nd

November 2, 1920: On the day of the U.S. presidential election between Warren G. Harding and James Cox, white residents of Ocoee, Florida attacked African-Americans in their community in order to prevent them from voting. The Ocoee Massacre, as the violence came to be known, killed two white residents and 30 to 35 Black residents of the Orange County town. Ocoee’s police chief was openly a member of the Ku Klux Klan. 

November 2, 1944: Chemical engineer Thomas Midgley Jr., whose environmentally-unfriendly accomplishments included putting lead in gasoline and inventing Freon, dies of strangulation in his home after becoming entangled in the rope-and-pulley system he had rigged up to help him cope with disability stemming from a bout of polio.

November 2, 1962: Actor Alan Ladd, age 48, is found lying in a pool of blood in his home with a bullet wound to the chest. He tells police who investigate that he’d shot himself accidentally after thinking he’d heard a burglar in the house. Ladd, whose mother had died by suicide when Ladd was 24, may have attempted suicide, missing shooting himself in the heart only by the accident of the bullet bouncing off his ribs.

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November 2, 2004: Vincent Van Gogh’s 47-year-old great-grand-nephew Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker, is shot and then has his throat slit while riding his bicycle on the east side of Amsterdam. His killer is a 26-year-old man, Mohammed Bouyeri, who has ties to Egyptian terrorist group Jama'at al-Muslimin, a radical Islamist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Van Gogh was a vocal critic of some Islamic practices, especially those associated with fundamentalist Islam.

Almanac for July 3rd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for July 3rd: https://ko-fi.com/Post/July-3-Danville-F2F11HQB6I

July 3, 1926 review of Edith Wharton's Here and Beyond, Milwaukee Leader

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Back to the Future
Artist Birthday: Patrick Wilson

Bummer July 3rd

July 3, 1918: As a 4-year-old child, actor Alan Ladd accidentally burns down his family’s home in Arkansas while playing with matches.

July 3, 1969: 27-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, heavily intoxicated, is found dead in his swimming pool, the apparent victim of an accidental drowning.

July 3, 1971: 27-year-old Doors lead singer/songwriter Jim Morrison is found dead, apparently having mixed alcohol with his asthma medication after being advised by his doctor not to do so. Morrison was severely alcoholic and was also known to have had severe asthma since childhood.

July 3, 1988: Mistaking the commercial aircraft for a hostile military plane, the USS Vincennes missile cruiser shoots down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilians. Sixty-six of the passengers were children. Although the U.S. eventually pays Iran a monetary settlement, the U.S. never admits fault or apologizes.

July 3, 1999: Musician/artist Mark Sandman, perhaps best known as a member of the band Morphine, collapses while playing a Morphine show in Palestrina, Lazio, Italy. He is pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The 46-year-old’s fatal heart attack is thought to have been triggered, in part, by the extreme heat of the day.

Almanac for January 29th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for January 29th: https://ko-fi.com/post/January-29-The-Raven-M4M319KAUE

Bummer January 29th

January 29, 1916: During the Great War, Germany uses zeppelins to bomb Paris. The physical damage is minimal, but the aerial bombardment has the effect of psychologically terrorizing Parisians.

January 29, 1933: Poet Sara Teasdale overdoses on sleeping pills, an apparent suicide. She is 48 years old.

January 29, 1964: Actor Alan Ladd, age 50, dies at his home in bed from cerebral edema caused by an overdose of alcohol and prescription medications. His life had been difficult as you will see on July 3rd, November 2nd, and November 29th.

January 29, 2003: A dust explosion caused by highly flammable polyethylene dust at the West Pharmaceutical Plant in Kinston, North Carolina, kills six people, injures 36 workers, and subsequently injures two firefighters who arrive to fight the fire caused by the explosion.

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