1095 - In France, Pope Urban II solemnly proclaimed the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont

1829 - The final section of the Welland Canal was opened

1861 - First streetcars in Montreal make their debut

1862 - Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dawson sent a handwritten manuscript called Alice's Adventures Under Ground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.  The 30-year-old Dawson, better known by his nom de plume Lewis Carroll, made up the story one day on a picnic with young Alice and her two sisters

1885 - Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made

1885 - Wandering Spirit hanged outside Fort Battleford, Saskatchewan with 7 other Crees; for the murders at Frog Lake on April 1; last public execution in Canada

1895 - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1924 - NY City's Macy's department store held its first Thanksgiving Day parade down a two-mile stretch of Broadway from Central Park West to Herald Square

1960 - Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to score 1,000 points, as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs

1961 - Gordie Howe becomes the first to play in 1,000 NHL games

1965 - First French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space

1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"

1967 - Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"

1971 - Soviet Mars 2 becomes the first spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1977 - Don Sweet kicks Cup record six field goals and scores Cup record 23 points as Marv Levy's CFL Montreal Alouettes beat the Edmonton Eskimos 41-6 in the 65th Grey Cup game

1978 - Former Board of Supervisors member Dan White murders Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk at City Hall in San Francisco, California

1983 - Bob O'Billovich's Toronto Argonauts beat British Columbia Lions 18-17 to win 71st CFL Grey Cup game. This is the first indoor Grey Cup game, under the BC Place dome, and the first Argo victory in 31 years

1994 - David Richie's British Columbia Lions beat Baltimore Stallions 26-23 to win 82nd CFL Grey Cup game; first Grey Cup game with a US expansion team

Birthdays

1701 - Anders Celsius, Uppsala, Sweden �?astronomer: devised the centigrade scale
1857 - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington - medical author: "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System"; coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse"
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Motol, Russia - Israeli statesman and first President
1909 - James Agee, Knoxville, Tennessee - author: The African Queen, A Death in the Family
1912 - David Merrick - Broadway producer: Hello Dolly
1915 - Yves Thériault, Quebec City - author: Agaguk
1917 - "Buffalo" Bob Smith, Buffalo NY - TV host: Howdy Doody
1921 - Alexander Dubcek - headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1924 - Gerald Eric Le Dain, Montreal Que - Supreme Court judge; chaired federal inquiry into drug use from 1969-1973
1925 - Ernie Wise, England - comedian: Morecambe & Wise
1925 - Marshall Thompso, Peoria IL, - actor: Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari
1925 - Michael Tolan, Detroit MI - actor: Nurses, Senator
1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr - Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1933 - Jacques Godbout, Montreal - author/filmmaker: Yul 871, Kid Sentiment, L'Isle au dragon
1937 - Gail Sheehy - author: Hustling
1940 - Bruce Lee [Lee Jun Fan], San Francisco California - karate star/actor: Green Hornet, Enter the Dragon
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, Seattle, Wash - musician: Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, Brooklyn NY - singer: I Love a Rainy Night
1945 - Barbara Anderson, Brooklyn NY - actress: Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible
1952 - Sheila Copps, Hamilton, Ontario �?politician; the daughter of perennial Hamilton Mayor Vic Copps
1954 - Curtis Armstrong - actor: Moonlighting
1954 - Patricia McPherson, Oak Harbor Washington - actress: Bonnie-Knight Rider
1963 - Fisher Stevens, Chicago - actor: My Science Project, Short Circuit
1964 - Robin Simone Givens, NY City - actress: Darlene-Head of the Class
1967 - Garry Valk Edmonton, Alberta - NHL left winger: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim; Toronto Maple Leafs
1976 - Jaleel White, Los Angeles - actor: Steve Urkel-Family Matters
1976 - Chad Kilger, Cornwall Ontario - NHL player: Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks
1985 - Alison Pill, Toronto Ont - actress: Pieces of April, Dear Wendy

 

 

 

More Things to Think About

 

Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs

 

How can you add one to infinity?
 
How do they get Teflon to stick to the pans?

 

I had amnesia once - or twice.
 
Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.
 
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
 
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
 
If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.
 
What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?
 
They told me I was gullible .. and I believed them.